Pivot Table Data Crunching for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (Business Solutions)

By Juergen Geiser

This book consolidates all the best functionality of pivot tables into one guide that provides you with a meaningful tutorial, offering practical solutions to day-to-day problems. Within just the first 2 chapters, you will be creating basic pivot tables, increasing productivity, and producing reports in minutes instead of hours. Within the first 6 chapters, you will learn how to use pivot tables to quickly highlight your top 10 customers or bottom 5 products in profitability; quickly create analysis comparing sales this period to last period by product or region or both; easily summarize daily transactional data by month or quarter or year in a few mouse clicks all without knowing any formulas By the end of the book, you will truly be a pivot table guru, automating pivot tables using VBA, creating pivot tables with external data in OLAP cubes, and even creating dynamic reporting systems so that your managers can answer their own queries with a few mouse clicks. Take advantage of the numerous pivot table recipes Create powerful summary reports in seconds Build ad-hoc query tools with ease Enhance your Executive Reporting Filter reports to top 10 customers or products Add dynamic charts to reports Quickly summarize daily data by month, quarter, or year Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 Pivot Table Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 2 Creating a Basic Pivot Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 3 Customizing a Pivot Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 4 Controlling the Way You View Your Pivot Data . . . . . . . . . . . .83 5 Performing Calculations Within Your Pivot Tables . . . . . . . . 117 6 Using Pivot Charts and Other Visualizations . . . . . . . . . . . . .141 7 Analyzing Disparate Data Sources with Pivot Tables . . . . . . 167 8 Sharing Pivot Tables with Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189 9 Working with and Analyzing OLAP Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 10 Enhancing Your Pivot Table Reports with Macros . . . . . . . . .215 11 Using VBA to Create Pivot Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 12 Common Pivot Table Issues and Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . .291 A Finding Pivot Table Commands on the Ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . .315" This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789736012
• ISBN13: 9780789736017
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Que
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great reference

I use pivot tables all of the time so I bought this book to see if there are things I can learn. I did and have learned a lot and it is a great reference. The first two chapters cover the basics but it advances very quickly after that. Writing is very bullet-ed and you can easily look up what you are looking for. A must have for all beginner, intermediate, and even advanced Pivot Table users! Note of caution is that if...

Pivot Table Power User

I count myself as a power Excel user and experienced Pivot Table wiz, I found this book to be very helpful, also good for novice

Great stuff

This book helped tremendously during my early stages using PT, without a doubt I would recommend this book to someone who just started to incorporate Pivot Table into their work. One recommendation, It would be nice if a CD with all the work examples came with the book, unfortunately you have to download the example files from a website.

It does make Pivot Table EASY!

I have no previous experience of either Pivot Table or Office 2007. However, by following the instructions of this book and keep practicing, I don't feel pivot table is so difficult as I did before. Highly recommend this book.

Buidence from the Experts

Pivot Tables are one of the most powerful yet least used features of Excel. The author's MrExcel web site conducted a survey that showed that less than 42% of Excell users make use of pivot tables. I believe his estimate is high. Only experts are likely to visit his web site. I don't believe that 42% of the people who use Excel have even heard of pivot tables. I further think that part of the problem is the name Pivot Table...