If you've never made use of Excel Pivot Tables, prepare to be blown away! This hands-on class will lead you to sharpen your reporting skills with the most powerful and under-utilized tools in the Excel arsenal-Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts! You will learn how to use Excel to retrieve database records and other external information as a basis for your reports. Learn to achieve speed with effective handling of large volumes of data and provide flexible reports that can be changed at-will, and format your reports for clarity and professionalism. This class takes a ground-up approach - no prior knowledge of Pivot Tables is required. Bring your own laptop to participate!

• Retrieving data from external sources 
• Data layout best practices 
• Anatomy of a Pivot Table 
• Using the gallery for style 
• PivotTable calculations 
• Drill-down capabilities 
• Using PivotTables as reporting packages