Excel 2019 makes it simple to create a new pivot table using a data list selected in your worksheet with its Quick Analysis tool. To preview various types of pivot tables that Excel can create for you on the spot using the entries in a data list that you have open in an Excel worksheet, simply follow these steps:
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- Select all the data (including the column headings) in your data list as a cell range in the worksheet.If you’ve assigned a range name to the data list, you can select the column headings and all the data records in one operation simply by choosing the data list’s name from the Name box drop-down menu.
- Click the Quick Analysis tool that appears right below the lower-right corner of the current cell selection.
Doing this opens the palette of Quick Analysis options with the initial Formatting tab selected and its various conditional formatting options displayed. - Click the Tables tab at the top of the Quick Analysis options palette.
Excel selects the Tables tab and displays its Table and PivotTable option buttons. The Table button previews how the selected data would appear formatted as a table. The other PivotTable buttons preview the various types of pivot tables that can be created from the selected data. - To preview each pivot table that Excel 2019 can create for your data, highlight its PivotTable button in the Quick Analysis palette.
As you highlight each PivotTable button in the options palette, Excel’s Live Preview feature displays a thumbnail of a pivot table that can be created using your table data. This thumbnail appears above the Quick Analysis options palette for as long as the mouse or Touch pointer is over its corresponding button. - When a preview of the pivot table you want to create appears, click its button in the Quick Analysis options palette to create it.
Excel 2019 then creates the previewed pivot table on a new worksheet that is inserted at the beginning of the current workbook. This new worksheet containing the pivot table is active so that you can immediately rename and relocate the sheet as well as edit the new pivot table, if you wish.
The following figures show you how this procedure works. In the first figure, the fourth suggested PivotTable button in the Quick Analysis tool’s option palette is highlighted. The previewed table in the thumbnail displayed above the palette shows the salaries subtotals and grand totals in the Employee Data list organized whether or not the employees participate in profit sharing (Yes or No).
The second figure shows you the pivot table that Excel created when I clicked the highlighted button in the options palette in the preceding figure. Note this pivot table is selected on its own worksheet (Sheet1) that’s been inserted in front of the Employee Data worksheet. Because the new pivot table is selected, the PivotTable Fields task pane is displayed on the right side of the Excel worksheet window and the PivotTable Tools context tab is displayed on the Ribbon. You can use the options on this task pane and contextual tab to then customize your new pivot table.
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Excel for Mac 2011 To help you locate data that you want to analyze in a PivotTable more easily, you can sort text entries (from A to Z or Z to A), numbers (from smallest to largest or largest to smallest), and dates and times (from oldest to newest or newest to oldest). Question: In Microsoft Excel 2011 for Mac, I've created a pivot table and now I need to change the data source. How do I change the data source for an existing pivot table? Answer: Click somewhere in the pivot table and the PivotTable tab should appear in the toolbar at the top of the screen. Select the PivotTable tab, click on the Options button and select Change Source from the popup menu. If you have never used pivot tables in Excel or would like to build on your basic knowledge, you’re in the right place. (Note: PivotTable is the trademarked term for Microsoft Excel’s pivot table function) By the time you finish this article, you should have a firm grip on how to create a pivot table in Excel. In Excel, when you create a pivot table, the row labels are displayed as a compact layout, all the headings are listed in one column. Sometimes, you need to convert the compact layout to outline form to make the table more clearly. But in tphe outline layout, the headings will be displayed at the top of the group.
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Note that if Excel can’t suggest various pivot tables to create from the selected data in the worksheet, a single Blank PivotTable button is displayed after the Table button in the Quick Analysis tool’s options on the Tables tab. You can select this button to manually create a new pivot table for the data.