Excel 2007 PivotTables Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in .NET) [Paperback]

Debra Dalgleish (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 10, 2007 | Series: Expert's Voice in .NET

Debra Dalgleish, Microsoft Office Excel "Most Valuable Professional" since 2001, and an expert and trainer in Excel, brings together a one-stop resource for anyone curious about representing, analyzing, and using their data with PivotTables and PivotCharts. You’ll find this book inimitable when facing any new or difficult problem in PivotTables, covering the entire breadth of situations you could ever encounter, from planning and creating, to formatting and extracting data, to maximizing performance and troubleshooting.

The author presents tips and techniques in this collection of recipes that can’t be found in Excel’s Help section, while carefully explaining the most confusing features of PivotTables to help you realize their powerful potential.

The chapters in this book have been organized into a collection of recipes to take you step by step from the problem you are experiencing to the solution you are aiming for. Without fuss, you’ll find clear and precise information to help you assess your situation, whether common or unique, and solve your problem. Working examples of complex PivotTables and numerous PivotTable programming examples will help you solve problems quickly, without the need to digest heavy content.

What you’ll learn

• How to create and format PivotTables to be as attractive as they are useful
• How to reuse prepackaged “recipe” code to put PivotTables to work in a variety of data-driven scenarios
• How to determine why results of your computations and charting might not match what you expect and how to understand and fix those problems
• Related programming techniques using working examples of advanced PivotTables

Who this book is for

This book is a must-have resource for anyone who uses Excel frequently.

Table of Contents

1. Creating a Pivot Table
2. Sorting and Filtering Pivot Table Data
3. Calculations in a Pivot Table
4. Formatting a Pivot Table
5. Grouping and Totaling Pivot Table Data
6. Modifying a Pivot Table
7. Updating a Pivot Table
8. Pivot Table Security, Limits, and Performance
9. Printing and Extracting Pivot Table Data
10. Pivot Charts
11. Programming a Pivot Table

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Debra Dalgleish is a computer consultant in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, serving local and international clients. Self-employed since 1985, she has extensive experience in designing complex Excel and Access applications, as well as sophisticated Word forms and documents. She has led hundreds of Microsoft Office corporate training sessions, from beginner to advanced level. In recognition of her contributions to the Excel newsgroups, she has received the Microsoft Office Excel "Most Valuable Professional" award each year since 2001. You can find a wide variety of Excel tips and tutorials, and sample files, on her Contextures website: Contextures.com/tiptech.html.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (December 10, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590599209
• ISBN-13: 978-1590599204
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 0.7 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #249,670 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #72 in Books > Computers & Technology > Home Computing & How-to > Microsoft How-to > Excel

More About the Author

I'm Debra Dalgleish, the owner and lead consultant at Contextures, a consulting firm located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Self-employed since 1985, I specialize in Excel programming and Access database design, serving local and international clients.

You'll find Excel tips, Excel tutorials, and Excel video tutorials, like the one shown here, on my website and blogs:
* Contextures website -- http://www.contextures.com
* Contextures Excel blog -- http://blog.contextures.com
* Contextures pivot table blog -- http://www.pivot-table.com

To help you with pivot tables, I've written three books, available here at Amazon:
* Beginning Pivot Tables in Excel 2007
* Excel 2007 Pivot Tables Recipes
* Excel Pivot Tables Recipe Book

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Debra provides a very practical view on using Excel Pivot Tables October 4, 2009

By T. Cayton

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While parts of the book provide very obvious solutions to Excel problems, there are some tricks and techniques that are outlined that I never realized existed. For that reason alone, I provide a high rating for this book. Two of my favorites are normilization of Pivot data and copying the pivot table format to a seperate Excel file. IF you look on the web, Debra provides free advice. Her books are constantly referenced when searching Google for Pivot table questions. If that were not enough, many of these books can be purchased at a large discount by third party sellers.

The best part of this book is everytime I do a web search, material in the book pops up. You will find the index is weak at best, but a quick web search will direct you to the exact page. I use this book extensively for work - excellent.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars a rare find. September 16, 2010

By drew georgopulos

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its a waste of time to work on a pivot table without devouring both Ms. Dalglish's books. The format of the first is what you'd expect, the format of this one a little off-putting because it reads more like a story than a technical manual, but the content is absolutely nonpareil. Nuggets abound, so you really need to read it all. You will not be sorry.