DAR ES SALAAM MARITIME INSTITUTE DMI

PROGRAM: BACHELOR DEGREE IN MARITIME TRANSPORTS AND NAUTICAL

SCIENCES (BMTNS 1)
MODULE NAME: COMPUTER SYSTEM AND APPLICATION
MODULE CODE: SLU 07204
TASK. : ASSIGNMENT 2
SUPERVISOR : Mr F Masanja
DATE OF SUB. : 13 may 2022
QUESTION NUMBER : 74
EXPLAIN PIVOT TABLES AND IT’S USES

GROUP PARTICIPANT'S
STUDENTS NAME REGISTRATION NO. SIGNATURE.
1. NSENWA CHESCO J BMTNS/21/015
2. ANIFA ABDALLAH BMTNS/021/062
3. EMMANUEL TUMAINI BMTNS/021/028
A pivot table is a summary of your data, from the work sheet that let’s to explore data based
on your information.

pivot tables are one of Excel's most powerful features. A pivot table allows you to extract the
significance from a large, detailed data set.
Our data set consists of 213 records and 6 fields. Order ID, Product, Category, Amount, Date
and Country.

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO FORM PIVOT TABLE

To insert a pivot table, execute the following steps.
1. Click any single cell inside the data set.

2. On the Insert tab, in the Tables group, click PivotTable.

The following dialog box appears. Excel automatically selects the data for you. The default
location for a new pivot table is New Worksheet.

3. Click OK.
Drag fields
The PivotTable Fields pane appears. To get the total amount exported of each product, drag
the following fields to the different areas.
 Product field to the Rows area.
 Amount field to the Values area.
 Country field to the Filters area.
Below you can find the pivot table. Bananas are our main export product. That's how easy
pivot tables can be!
The purpose of pivot tables
 is to offer user-friendly ways to quickly summarize large amounts of data.

Pivot tables are helpful for automatically calculating things that you can't easily find
in a basic Excel table. One of those things is counting rows that all have something in
common.

 They can be used to better understand, display, and analyse numerical data in detail
Comparing sales totals of different products. Say you have a worksheet that contains
monthly sales data for three different products — product 1, product 2, and product 3
— Using a pivot table, you can automatically aggregate all of the sales figures for
product 1, product 2, and product 3 — and calculate their respective sums — in less
than a minute.

 can help identify and answer unanticipated questions surrounding it showing product
sales as percentages of total sales. To show product sales as percentages of total sales
in a pivot table, simply right-click the cell carrying a sales total and select Show
Values As > % of Grand Total.