PivotTables for Beginners Online Training Course

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PivotTables for Beginners

DURATION: 5.32 hours
VIDEOS: 64
LEVEL: Beginner

We all need to analyze data these days because we live in a data-driven world. Data is so important for understanding business, looking for trends, or forecasting future needs. There is growing reliance on data analysis, so you must have the relevant skills to organize and represent data effectively.

PivotTable is an essential Excel skill for jobs that require analyzing and visualizing large amounts of data. This tool provides an interactive way to summarize, group, and aggregate sets of data, allowing you to analyze them clearly and effectively.

This course will discuss the importance of cleaning your data before creating your first PivotTable. You will also learn how to create Pivot Charts and format both your tables and charts.

This beginner-level course is aimed at people who have never used PivotTables before and would like to get started, but it is also helpful for those who already have a basic knowledge of the topic and would like to expand their skills. This course includes downloadable Excel data files—the same ones that the instructor uses in the tutorial so you can easily follow along.

This course covers:

How to clean and prepare your data
Creating a basic PivotTable
Using the PivotTable fields pane
Adding fields and pivoting the fields
Formatting numbers in PivotTable
Different ways to summarize data
How to group PivotTable data
Using multiple fields and dimensions
Methods of aggregation
How to choose and lock the report layout
Applying PivotTable styles
Sorting data and using filters
Create pivot charts based on PivotTable data
How to select the right chart for your data
Applying conditional formatting
Adding slicers and timelines to your dashboards
Adding new data to the original source dataset
How to update PivotTables and charts

PivotTables for Beginners

The course comes with course and exercise files compressed into .zip format. You will need to download the .zip file to your PC or Mac (the files are not compatible with a mobile device) and unzip it. Once unzipped, all of the exercise files will reside in one folder.

Click on the below to open Dropbox in a new browser tab, then click on “Download” in the top right-hand corner.

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