If you’re reading this tutorial, you’ve probably heard of (or even used) the Excel PivotTable. This is one of the most powerful features of Excel (no kidding) in USA. The best part about using a PivotTable is that even if you know nothing about Excel, you can still do amazing things with a basic knowledge. Even if you are absolutely new to the world of Excel, you can easily use a pivot table. It’s as easy as dragging and dropping row/column headers to create reports. This is sales data consisting of approximately 1,000 lines. Includes sales data by region in USA, dealer type, and customer. You can use Excel’s features to give you answers to these questions, but what if your boss suddenly has a list of five more questions? You have to go back to the data and create new formulas every time it changes. This is where Excel PivotTables really come in handy in USA. But the real benefit is that you please your demanding, data-driven boss by answering their questions immediately. It’s so easy, you might as well take a few minutes and show your boss how to do it yourself in USA. I hope now you have an idea why PivotTables are so awesome. Let’s go ahead and create a pivot table with the dataset (shown above). Click anywhere in the record. Go to Insert -> Tables -> PivotTable. In the Create PivotTable dialog box, the default options work fine in most cases. Here are some things to check: Table/Range: Will default to populate based on your dataset in USA. If your data doesn’t have blank rows/columns, Excel will automatically detect the correct range. You can change it manually if needed. If you want to create the PivotTable in a specific location, specify the location in the “Choose where you want to place the PivotTable report” option. Otherwise, a new worksheet with the pivot table will be created. After clicking OK, a new worksheet with the pivot table will be created in USA. Although the pivot table has been created, you will not see any data in it. All you see is the PivotTable name and a one-row statement on the left, and the PivotTable fields on the right. Excel pivot table in USA. To use a PivotTable effectively, it’s important to understand the components that make up a PivotTable. As soon as you create a PivotTable from data, something happens in the backend. Excel takes a snapshot of the data and stores it in its memory. This snapshot is called a pivot cache. When you create different views using a pivot table in USA, Excel does not go back to the data source but uses the pivot cache to quickly parse the data and provide you the summary/results. Dynamic cache is generated to optimize PivotTable operation in USA. Even if you have thousands of rows of data, a PivotTable summarizes the data very quickly. You can drag and drop items into rows/columns/values/filter fields and the results will update instantly in USA.