Glossary term
What is PivotTable?
In Apex Flow Academy, "PivotTable" means: A summary report that groups and totals a list when you drag fields. It never changes the list, and you refresh it to update it. It is taught in Microsoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced. Related terms include Helper column, Slicer, Criteria and Spill. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is PivotTable?
A summary report that groups and totals a list when you drag fields. It never changes the list, and you refresh it to update it.
Where is PivotTable taught?
PivotTable is defined in Microsoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced.
Which lessons cover PivotTable?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- Microsoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced, lesson 4.1: Your first PivotTable
- Microsoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced, lesson 4.2: Two-way PivotTables: columns, month groups and percentages
- Microsoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced, lesson 4.3: Slicers: filter your PivotTables with buttons
- Microsoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced, lesson 6.2: Build the sales dashboard
Which terms are related to PivotTable?
Next to PivotTable in the course glossaries: Helper column, Slicer, Criteria, Spill, Exact and approximate match, Data validation, Lookup and key and Control total.
Helper columnSlicerCriteriaSpillExact and approximate matchData validationLookup and keyControl total
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn PivotTable?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- Microsoft Excel: Beginner to Advanced: No earlier spreadsheet experience is needed.