Here's how to create a pivot table in Excel to slice and dice your data, letting you perform in-depth analyses and spot important trends.

Open an Excel sheet with relevant data. Select Analyze Data at the top and Excel automatically selects the table on your sheet. You can check suggested pivot tables and charts from the side menu.

The Pivot Table is a tool that Excel uses to create custom reports from your spreadsheet databases. All you need is one common, unique field. Here's how to set it up with multiple spreadsheets.