Excel 2024: Create Your First Pivot Table

May 2, 2024 - by Bill Jelen

Pivot tables let you summarize tabular data to a one-page summary in a few clicks. Start with a data set that has headings in row 1. It should have no blank rows, blank columns, blank headings or merged cells.

Select a single cell in your data and choose Insert, Pivot Table.

Excel will detect the edges of your data and offer to create the pivot table on a new worksheet. Click OK to accept the defaults.

The Create Pivot Table dialog identified the data as A1:K564 and offers to put the pivot table on a new worksheet.

Excel inserts a new blank worksheet to the left of the current worksheet. On the right side of the screen is the Pivot Table Fields pane. At the top, a list of your fields with checkboxes.

The top half of the Pivot Table Fields pane lists all of the fields from the original data set with a checkbox to the left of each one.

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