A pivot table is a useful tool in data analysis that can give you an overview of your data. We'll show you how to create one in Excel and Google Sheets.

If you use Google Sheets regularly and want to refer to an abbreviated version of your data, then look no further than the pivot table. Here's how to use it.

Pivot tables in Google Sheets summarize smaller sets of data from a more extensive dataset and can be sorted by rows, columns, values, and filters.

If you double-click a value in a PivotTable to drill down, Excel extracts the values that contributed to it, placing them into a new sheet. PivotTables have a built-in drill-down feature.

Learn how to use Excel pivot tables to QA bulk sheets, plus some tips and shortcuts to enhance your pivot table skills.