Ask yourself questions.
Use the wizard.
Lay out the PivotTable report.
You don't have to be an Excel expert—although it's okay if you are—to create a PivotTable report. You just have to:
- Decide what questions you want the data to answer.
- Use the PivotTable Report Wizard to prepare the data for the report.
- Lay out the report by dragging and dropping data onto the layout area, and—voilà—a PivotTable report.
When you've finished reading this page, click Next to continue the lesson on your own.
In this lesson you'll learn why it's important to have well-organized source data from which to create a PivotTable report, and how to figure out which data to drop where. In the practice session, you'll have a chance to try out what you've learned about in the lesson.
