Workout: Excel – Preparing Lists for Pivot tables

Excel lists should be in a certain format when used as Pivot source data. To get correct results, even formatting matters. If you convert a list into an Excel Table, you will get features that help you handle and manage your lists.

Goal

The objective of this training is to learn basics of managing lists in order to create Pivot tables.

Target audience

This course is intended for Excel users, who need to modify data in order to create Pivot tables. No prior knowledge or experience of lists, Tables or Pivot Tables is required.

Software version

In the training the latest Excel 365 version will be used, but the basic features and possibilities of lists, Tables and Pivot tables have not changed much in the previous versions so you can use the version you are normally using works fine.

Content

Structure rules of Excel data list

• Preparing lists for Pivot tables
• Converting numbers stored as text to numbers
• Converting dates stored as text
• Filling empty cells with zeroes or with value above
• Useful formulas and functions for converting

Benefits of an Excel table in Pivot reports

Keywords

Excel, Pivot, lists, tables, data