Overview:
Pivot Tables are one of the most powerful tools in Excel’s data analysis and Business Intelligence (BI) armory.

With just a few clicks of the mouse (and no complicated formulas!), you can quickly and easily build the reports, dashboards, and charts that help you to summarize, analyze, interpret and understand your data which in turn helps you to spot trends and get answers to the important questions on which you base your key business decisions.

Pivot Tables have a reputation for being complicated and scary but by attending this training, you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to use and create them.

Learning Objectives:
•  Use Pivot Tables to turn raw data into meaningful and insightful reports
•  Structure your raw data in the right way
•  Design and format your Pivot Table reports so that they are easy to read and understand
•  Summarise your data in different ways including totals, counts and percentages
•  Use Pivot Tables to create monthly summary reports
•  Convert a Pivot Table into a chart

Areas Covered in the Session:
•  Use cases: Why and when you should use a Pivot Table
•  Your raw data – do’s and don’ts
•  Create a simple Pivot Table with a few mouse clicks
•  Different ways to summarize your data – total, count, and percent
•  Apply formatting to a Pivot Table to make it easy to read and understand
•  Display Pivot Table data in alphabetical or numerical order
•  Represent the Pivot Table data as a chart/graph
•  How to update a Pivot Table when the source data changes

Speaker: Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas has worked in the IT training business since 1989. He is a subject matter expert in a range of technologies, his primary focus, and his passion being Microsoft Office, especially Excel.