Learn four ways to refresh a pivot table with new data in Excel for data analysis in plant engineering. Find out how to use the ribbon, the right-click menu, the pivot table options, or the VBA code.

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.

The pivot table in Excel We’ll need a pivot table before we can start filtering, so to that end, we’ll build the pivot table shown in Figure A, based on the data shown in the same sheet.

Organize data in a tabular format with clear headers Convert dataset into a table for better data management To create a pivot table, navigate to the ‘Insert’ tab in Excel.

If you've have lots of data and lots of analysis to do, but little time or skill, you need Excel's Power Pivot feature. Here's how to get started with it.