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Lets see a simple example. Consider the following data (which is provided as an
excel file also, in your mail). M/s XYZ COMPUTERS sells 3 different products
(Computer, UPS & Printer). They have 5 branches and about 18 sales persons.
This database contains sales figures of all the 18 sales persons in all the 5
branches for the month of May and June.
SALES
MONTH YEAR PRODUCT SALESMAN UNITS AMOUNT BRANCH
MAY 2008 COMPUTER RAJA 5 250000 TRICHY
MAY 2008 PRINTER BALU 5 60000 TRICHY
MAY 2008 UPS RAVI 5 20000 TRICHY
MAY 2008 COMPUTER ARAVINDH 3 120000 CHENNAI
MAY 2008 PRINTER ANANDH 2 26000 TRICHY
MAY 2008 UPS MURUGAN 3 120000 TRICHY
MAY 2008 COMPUTER KINGSLY 7 350000 CHENNAI
MAY 2008 PRINTER DAVID 12 96000 CHENNAI
MAY 2008 UPS KUMAR 10 40000 CHENNAI
JUNE 2008 COMPUTER SELVAM 3 75000 TANJORE
JUNE 2008 PRINTER JOSEPH 1 10000 TANJORE
JUNE 2008 UPS ISMAIL 2 8000 TANJORE
JUNE 2008 COMPUTER DURAI 6 300000 TRICHY
JUNE 2008 PRINTER PANDIAN 2 26000 VILUPURAM
JUNE 2008 UPS VENI 3 120000 VILUPURAM
JUNE 2008 COMPUTER REVATHI 6 300000 SALEM
JUNE 2008 PRINTER USMAN 12 96000 SALEM
JUNE 2008 UPS SHYAM 10 40000 SALEM
TOTAL 2057000
This data appears to be quite simple. If you are required to create different types
of reports for this data, how many types of reports you can create? To name a
few, we can create reports on the following:
1. Branchwise sales figures
2. Monthwise sales figures
3. Sales by individual sales person
4. Productwise sales figures
5. Branchwise, monthwise, productwise sales classifications (5 branches x 2
months x 3 products)
6. Specific criteria based reports (Which branch has sold more than 10 printers
for the given period, who is the topmost seller among sales persons etc.,)
You can create all these reports manually just by looking into the database, since
the data is limited. If the number of products being sold is around 50, can we
create reports manually? Or if there are 20 branches, can we create reports
manually? The power of Pivot Table comes in handy for scenarios of this kind.
Lets give a try. Download the PIVOT.XLS from your mail to your system and
open this file. You can see a worksheet named DATA which contains the
information shown in this material. Select the data in the range A8:G26 (shaded
in yellow in the excel file for your convenience). This range contains information,
which needs to be converted into various reports using PIVOT TABLE.
Now click DATA > PIVOT TABLE. You can see the range address of the data
already selected by us. Now choose the option to create the report in a new
worksheet and then click FINISH.
Once you click FINISH button, you can see a new worksheet created
automatically in your workbook. It will look like this and is awaiting for you to
work on this.
1. Look at the Pivot Table Field List. (Its a kind of combo box with inbuilt
options). You must see your column headings such as Month, Year etc., here.
Ensure that the option Row Area is selected in Add to dialogue
box.
2. Now double click on BRANCH and see what happens.
3. Then double click on MONTH and see what happens.
4. At this stage, you can see a TOTAL or SUB-TOTAL option behind each branch,
as shown in the following figure.
5. Keep the cursor in the TOTAL OPTION, and click your right mouse button.
Select HIDE from the options that are displayed.
6. Now double click on PRODUCT and similary HIDE the TOTAL ROW.
7. Now double click UNITS and HIDE the total row.
8. Repeat the same for SALES AMOUNT.
9. Now, change the option to PAGE AREA, in the Add to dialogue box and
double click on SALESMAN.
10. You need to be careful in this 10th step. You need use DRAG & DROP
method now, instead of double click. Using your mouse DRAG Sales
Amount from the Pivot Table Field List and place it on DROP DATA
ITEMS HERE.
You will be able to see a report similar to what is shown in this picture:
While this is just an introduction about PIVOT TABLES, there are many
more things to learn about it. Try a little bit and you can learn a lot on
your own. All the best.
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