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

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 clicksi¾–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 yearIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ Pivot Table Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 2i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ Creating a Basic Pivot Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 3i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ Customizing a Pivot Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 4i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ Controlling the Way You View Your Pivot Data . . . . . . . . . . . .83 5i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ Performing Calculations Within Your Pivot Tables . . . . . . . . 117 6i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ Using Pivot Charts and Other Visualizations . . . . . . . . . . . . .141 7i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ Analyzing Disparate Data Sources with Pivot Tables . . . . . . 167 8i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ Sharing Pivot Tables with Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189 9i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ Working with and Analyzing OLAP Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 10i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ Enhancing Your Pivot Table Reports with Macros . . . . . . . . .215 11i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ Using VBA to Create Pivot Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 12i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ Common Pivot Table Issues and Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . .291 Ai¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ Finding Pivot Table Commands on the Ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . .315