
As seen to the right, you can pull the exact information you need from a complex spreadsheet without having to go through the above mentioned steps for Excel-2010. The best part is you do not have to drag and drop anything into the field list. With the new Microsoft Excel-2013, you are just one click away from creating a basic pivot table. Manually drag and drop the required fields according to our requirements to calculate-Sum, average, percentage, etc.



to create a table. It can take a little while for a newbie to get the hang of Pivot tables. They also allow you to avoid using complex formulas like Vlookup, SumIF, etc. Excel Pivot tables help summarize your data.
