Preliminary Setup As I mentioned in my post on how to format tables in Excel, before I do anything with raw data, I format it as a table.

What is a pivot table, and why should you create one? Before we dive into pivot tables in Excel, letâ s have a quick word about it. A pivot table is a powerful tool in Excel to summarize and ...

Pivot tables in Google Sheets summarize smaller sets of data from a more extensive dataset and can be sorted by rows, columns, values, and filters.

Now select the 'Insert' tab and then 'Pivot Table'. It is best to insert the table into a new document. On other programs like OpenOffice data or in a Google spreadsheet, you might have to click the ...