Pivot Tables are meant to simplify (and partially automate) the ways you can organize and interpret the various data points in your spreadsheets. Think of it as a way to make either Excel or Sheets ...

I use these functions to summarize data with formulas instead of dialog boxes. That makes it easier to see exactly what's ...

I can easily achieve the same result with a pivot table by dragging the Salesperson field into Rows and the Sales field into Values. It will also be nicely formatted. However, if I change anything in ...