Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast, Episode 2191: Summarize with a Pivot Table. This is wrapping up our Summarized Data Week-- five different methods to create a summary report of one line per Customer., Pivot tables are one of the most powerful tools in Excel and Google Sheets, allowing users to quickly analyze and summarize large datasets. This article will provide a comprehensive guide to pivot tables, including advanced features and common troubleshooting tips. What is a Pivot Table?, A PivotTable is a powerful tool to calculate, summarize, and analyze data that lets you see comparisons, patterns, and trends in your data. PivotTables work a little bit differently depending on what platform you are using to run Excel. If you have the right license requirements, you can ask Copilot to help you create a PivotTable., In this chapter, you will learn how to set a calculation type based on how you want to summarize the data in the PivotTable. Consider the following PivotTable wherein you have the summarized sales data regionwise, salesperson-wise and month-wise., We can create a similar table using a Pivot Table. It is arguably more automated, and easier to manipulate. Let’s do it: Start by selecting the data –in our case, the range A3:D13. Note that we include the row of headings. On the Insert ribbon, in the first group (Tables), click Pivot Table., Pivot Tables are the most useful tool for creating Excel reports and dashboards, allowing users to efficiently summarize, filter, analyze, and present large datasets. PivotAnalyze tab features, commands, and options enable quick and dynamic insights of large dataset..