Microsoft Excel 2019 Pivot Table Data Crunching
Bill Jelen
Michael Alexander
Microsoft Excel 2019 Pivot Table Data Crunching
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To Ashvina Sharma and his team at Microsoft. Thanks for Pivot Table Defaults!
Bill Jelen
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Contents at a Glance
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Acknowledgments
Thanks to Mike Alexander for being my coauthor on the five previous editions of this book. At Microsoft, thanks to the Excel team for always being willing to answer questions about various features. At MrExcel.com, thanks to an entire community of people who are passionate about Excel. Finally, thanks to my wife, Mary Ellen, for her support during the writing process.
Bill Jelen
Thanks to Bill Jelen for deciding to coauthor this book with me many editions ago. His knowledge of Excel still blows me away to this day. My deepest thanks to the professionals at Pearson Education for all the hours of work put into bringing this book to life. Thanks also to Bob Umlas, whose technical editing has helped us make numerous improvements to the examples and text in this book. Finally, a special thank you goes to the wife and kids for putting up with all the time I spent locked away on this project.
Mike Alexander
About the Authors
Bill Jelen, Excel MVP and the host of MrExcel.com, has been using spreadsheets since 1985, and he launched the MrExcel.com website in 1998. Bill was a regular guest on Call for Help with Leo Laporte and has produced more than 2,200 episodes of his daily video podcast, Learn Excel from MrExcel. He is the author of 57 books about Microsoft Excel and writes the monthly Excel column for Strategic Finance magazine. Before founding MrExcel.com, Bill spent 12 years in the trenches, working as a financial analyst for the finance, marketing, accounting, and operations departments of a $500 million public company. He lives in Merritt Island, Florida, with his wife, Mary Ellen.
Mike Alexander is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) and author of several books on advanced business analysis with Microsoft Access and Excel. He has more than 15 years of experience consulting and developing Office solutions. Mike has been named a Microsoft MVP for his ongoing contributions to the Excel community.
Introduction
The pivot table is the single most powerful tool in all of Excel. Pivot tables came along during the 1990s, when Microsoft and Lotus were locked in a bitter battle for dominance of the spreadsheet market. The race to continually add enhanced features to their respective products during the mid-1990s led to many incredible features, but none as powerful as the pivot table.
With a pivot table, you can transform one million rows of transactional data into a summary report in seconds. If you can drag a mouse, you can create a pivot table. In addition to quickly summarizing and calculating data, pivot tables enable you to change your analysis on the fly by simply moving fields from one area of a report to another.
No other tool in Excel gives you the flexibility and analytical power of a pivot table.
What you will learn from this book
It is widely agreed that close to 60 percent of Excel customers leave 80 percent of Excel untouchedthat is, most people do not tap into the full potential of Excels built-in utilities. Of these utilities, the most prolific by far is the pivot table. Despite the fact that pivot tables have been a cornerstone of Excel for almost 20 years, they remain one of the most underutilized tools in the entire Microsoft Office suite.
Having picked up this book, you are savvy enough to have heard of pivot tablesand you have perhaps even used them on occasion. You have a sense that pivot tables provide a power that you are not using, and you want to learn how to leverage that power to increase your productivity quickly.
Within the first two chapters, you will be able to create basic pivot tables, increase your productivity, and produce reports in minutes instead of hours. Within the first seven chapters, you will be able to output complex pivot reports with drill-down capabilities and accompanying charts. By the end of the book, you will be able to build a dynamic pivot table reporting system.