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Download the files: https://bit.ly/pivotde All videos in the series PivotTables 01: Basics - • PivotTable basics in Microsoft Ex... PivotTables 02: Formatting PivotTables - • [Pivot Complete Course 2/5] PivotTables ... PivotTables 03: Sorting, filtering & grouping - online from July 25th, 2022 PivotTables 04: Values in PivotTables - online from July 27th, 2022 PivotTables 05: PivotCharts and interactive dashboards - online from July 29th, 2022 PivotTables have become an indispensable part of professional work with Excel. Sooner or later, almost all areas and applications will have to deal with the topic, and that is why confident use of Pivot is now a prerequisite in many jobs. In this first part of the complete course on PivotTables in Microsoft Excel, we really start with the basics - what are PivotTables anyway, how can we create them and what are the most important areas and functions. We start by learning how to structure our source data correctly for working with PivotTables. Then we explain exactly what the PivotTable fields are and how we can use them. After we have talked about the new tabs in the ribbon - PivotTable Analysis and Design - we look at PivotTable actions and learn how to update the PivotTable using Refresh and Change Data Source. We also show how you can simplify the whole thing using a table and explain in detail what the PivotTable Cache is and how it works. Video content 00:00 Welcome 00:56 Overview and download of the example file 03:25 Structuring data correctly for a PivotTable 08:23 Inserting/creating PivotTables 12:06 The PivotTable fields explained 23:11 The PivotTable analysis and design tabs in the ribbon 25:37 PivotTable actions explained 32:00 Refreshing and changing data sources 40:00 Formatting data as a table to work better with changing data 47:32 The PivotTable cache 55:35 Automatically generating filtered output data 59:06 Outro