Click into any cell near to this sheet where you would like your pivot table to appear.Ĭlick on the “Insert” tab in the ribbon at the top and then click the “Pivot Table” icon on the left.

As you can see here we have some fictional information about the sales figures for some items in a store.

Step # 1 – Finding the Place for the Tableįirst of all you are going to want to have some data already in your sheet. In this tutorial you are going to learn how to create a pivot table in Excel 2013. To get this change, click on the Tools control, and from the drop-down menu, I’ve chosen Fields Section and Areas Section Side-by-Side.Pivot tables are one of the most powerful features in Excel and they can make your data easy to use and manage with a minimum of effort. I have also changed the configuration of the task pane (task pane layout). Customers and Regions tables are expanded to show their column headers (field names). The following figure shows the Active tab of the PivotTable Fields task pane. To take the Customers table under the Active tab, activate the All tab, right-click the Customers table, and choose Show in Active Tab from the options. You can take any table under the All tab to the Active tab. The Active tab lists only the Orders table and the All tab lists all the tables in the workbook. The task pane contains two tabs: Active and All. If you look at the PivotTable Fields task pane (on the right side of the newly created worksheet), you will find that it is a bit different as this time we’ve selected to work with Data Model. Select the Add This Data to the Data Model check box and click OK.

Step 2Ĭhoose the data that you want to analyze and Choose where you want the PivotTable report to be placed – these two options will be as it is. The Create PivotTable dialog box will appear. Select any cell within the Orders table and choose Insert ➪ Tables ➪ Pivot Tables. Here is the step by step process we have used to create the pivot table: Step 1 Therefore, we shall use all these three tables to create our target pivot table. Notice that the sales and date information is in the Order table, the state information is in the Customers table, and the region names are in the Regions table. Our goal in this example is to summarize sales by state, by region, and by year. In addition, you can’t create calculated fields or calculated items. The most notable one is: you can’t create groups. Note: A pivot table created using the Data Model has some restrictions, when compared with a pivot table created from a single data table.

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