How to use a PivotTable in Excel to calculate, summarize, and analyze your worksheet data to see hidden patterns and trends.

Learn what PivotTable and PivotCharts are, how you can use them to summarize and analyze your data in Excel, and become familiar with the PivotTable- and PivotChart-specific elements and terms.

Each of these tables contain fields you can combine in a single PivotTable to slice your data in multiple ways. No manual formatting or data preparation is necessary.

In Excel, you can pivot data in a PivotTable or PivotChart by changing the field layout of the data. By using the PivotTable Field List, you can add, rearrange, or remove fields to show data in a PivotTable or PivotChart exactly the way that you want.

To summarize and report results from separate worksheet ranges, you can consolidate data from each separate worksheet range into a PivotTable on a master worksheet.

Learn about the calculation methods that are available, how calculations are affected by the type of source data, and how to use formulas in PivotTables and PivotCharts. To summarize values in a PivotTable in Excel for the web, you can use summary functions like Sum, Count, and Average.

To change the layout of a PivotTable, you can change the PivotTable form and the way that fields, columns, rows, subtotals, empty cells and lines are displayed.

In a PivotTable or PivotChart, you can expand or collapse to any level of data detail, and even for all levels of detail in one operation. On Windows and the Mac, you can also expand or collapse to a level of detail beyond the next level.

Sometimes it's hard to see the big picture when your raw data hasn’t been summarized. Your first instinct may be to create a PivotTable, but not everyone can look at numbers in a table and quickly see what's going on. PivotCharts are a great way to add data visualizations to your data.

Analyze your data in a PivotTable or PivotChart, build a Data Model, or use other business intelligence tools like Power Pivot and Power View.