When working with pivot tables, you will sometimes use filters to change how the data is presented in report based on the selected criteria. Using filters or using slicers are completely legitimate methods. But what if you want to create a separate report for each criterion you used in the filter. Excel has a simple option that allows you to do this…
A few years ago, Excel, which comes as part of a Microsoft 365 subscription, got the Ideas option. Now this option has been improved and is called Analyze Data. It enables, with the help of artificial intelligence, simple and fast data analysis to generate tables, pivot tables or charts according to user questions, which help user to visualize data in appropriate business reports.
Pivot tables are a report that has existed in Excel for a very long time, and it allows us to look at a source dataset from different angles, as well as to easily change views on the data. Despite the fact that this is a very useful report, many people still do not know how to use pivot tables. That’s why Microsoft recently added an option in Excel by which, based on the selected data, it can recommend you what kind of pivot table to create.
In the previous texts, you could learn about several ways to consolidate data, and here we will deal with consolidation using a pivot table. To be able to achieve this we will use the Pivot Table and Chart Wizard. This is a hidden option that you can’t find in any of the ribbons (you can add it yourself, if you wish, by adjusting the layout of the ribbon), and it makes it easier to create pivot tables and charts …
Pivot tables are reports that, above all, are used to interpret data based on given criteria. Sometimes a pivot table can also be used as a data source to make one or more new pivot tables. This usually happens when you want to create a pivot table from an existing business report, based on a query to the transaction database, and thus use the data that are available in initial pivot table.