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Table of Contents	Create a Pivot Table in Excel 2007
	Preparing Your Pivot Table Data   Creating a Simple Pivot Table   Adding Fields to the Pivot Table   Modifying the Pivot Table   Download the zipped sample file View the video tutorial

	Preparing Your Pivot Table Data Before you create a pivot table, make sure your data is organized correctly. There are instructions on the following pages, for setting up your source data in a table, organized into rows and columns.     Getting Started     Use a Dynamic Data Source In this example the source data contains information about property insurance policies. Each row has the details about one insurance policy, such as the region, state, construction type and the value of the insured property. Creating a Simple Pivot Table After your source data is prepared, you can create a pivot table. We'll create a pivot table that shows the total insured value in each of the four regions where we sell insurance. Select any cell in the source data table. On the Ribbon, click the Insert tab. In the Tables group, click PivotTable. In the Create PivotTable dialog box, the address of your source data table should be automatically entered in the Table/Range box. If not, click on the worksheet, and select the range manually. Next, select New Worksheet or Existing Worksheet as the location for your pivot table, then click OK. Adding Fields to the Pivot Table An empty pivot table is created in your workbook, either on a new sheet, or the existing sheet that you selected. When you select a cell within the pivot table, a PivotTable Field List appears, at the right of the worksheet. We want to see the total insured value in each of the four regions, so we'll add the Region and InsuredValue fields to the pivot table. In the PivotTable Field List, add a check mark to the Region field. The Region field is automatically added to the pivot table, in the Row Labels area. Add a check mark to the InsuredValue field, and it will be automatically added to the Values area. You can now see the total insured value in each region. Modifying the Pivot Table After you've created a pivot table, you can add more fields, remove fields, or move the fields to a different location in the pivot table layout. We'll remove the Region field, and add the Location field, to see the value of Rural policies compared to Urban. To remove the Region field, click on its check box, to remove the check mark. To add the Location field, click on its check box, to add a check mark. The pivot table now show the totals for Rural and Urban locations. View the Video Tutorial To see a demonstration of these instructions, watch the short video on how to create a pivot table in Excel 2007.

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