Who is this course for?

This course is tailored for all levels of Excel users. From someone who has picked up Microsoft Excel for their first time, to
someone who uses it around 2-3 hours a day, as well as long time Excel users who want to go deep in to learning all the
commands, tricks and visual analytical reports that Pivot Tables have to offer.

What do you get with the Xtreme Pivot Table Course?

Go and make yourself a coffee or tea, because this may take some time :)
1 More than 200 videos (217 to be exact!) which equates to over 9 hours of video tutorials.
Online viewing only or Online viewing + Downloadable videos, depending on the plan that you choose;
2 Access to all the Excel workbooks that are shown in the training videos so you can practice the new tricks learned;

3 HD quality short videos viewable from your PC, Laptop, Tablet device or Mobile/Cell phone;

4 Bonus Pivot Table Cheat Sheet to stick on your desk that highlights the most important Pivot Table commands visually;
5 Bonus Excel workbook that shows all the Course content. You can tick off and rate each tutorial once viewed and
track your progress;
6 My Top 20 Excel keyboard shortcuts that will save you heaps of time! They are in an animated gif format which lets
you sit back and view each shortcut live on your web browser;
7 20% discount on the time saving Pivot Power Add-In from Contextures;
8 Personal Email and Skype support during 12 months from purchase to help you whenever you are stuck with a Pivot
Table problem or query.
9 You will always receive a 25% discount whenever you purchase new courses from myexcelonline.com
10 If you are not satisfied with the tutorial, then I will return 100% of your money within 30 days without any questions
asked. That's my personal guarantee to you!

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Can I view an example of the videos & workbooks?
ABSOLUTELY! There is a free video for each chapter, plus two case studies and a bonus dashboard video for you to view
at www.myexcelonline.com/courses. So that's a total of 16 videos that you can view for free!

You can also download the respective workbooks so you can keep and practice.

What Excel version is the training compatible with?

The training was recorded using Excel 2010 and it is compatible with Excel 2007 and Excel 2013.

Some concepts are not available in Excel 2007 (like Slicers and some Pivot Table Calculations) but this is outlined in the
Course Outline in the next page.

What payment methods are accepted?

No matter what part of the world you are in, you can pay using your Debit or Credit Card from the following list:
Visa, MasterCard, AMEX, Discover, Diners etc.
If you want to make an electronic bank transfer then get in contact with us at courses@myexcelonline.com

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More questions?
Please get in contact with us at courses@myexcelonline.com or +34 645 899 767 and I will be glad to
answer any questions regarding this course that you may have.
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Course Outline
SEQUENCE CONTENTS MINUTES LEVEL
1 CUSTOMISE YOUR PIVOT TABLE
1.1 ARRANGING YOUR DATA SET
1.11 Tabular Format 2:17 Beginner - Intermediate
1.12 No gaps 2:14 Beginner - Intermediate
1.13 Formatting 1:17 Beginner - Intermediate
1.14 Tables 2:36 Beginner - Intermediate
TIPS
1.15 Clean Your Data Set 2:08 Beginner - Intermediate
1.2 CREATING A PIVOT TABLE
1.21 Inserting a Pivot Table 3:12 Beginner - Intermediate
1.22 Field List - Activate, move, resize & layout 1:30 Beginner - Intermediate
1.23 Field List & Areas 5:33 Beginner - Intermediate
1.24 Drill down to audit 1:33 Beginner - Intermediate
1.25 Sort Field List from A to Z 0:35 Beginner - Intermediate
TIPS
1.26 Double click on any labels to show more Fields 0:43 Beginner - Intermediate
1.27 Defer Layout Update 0:45 Beginner - Intermediate
1.3 OPTIONS > DATA
1.31 Pivot Cache explained 0:54 Beginner - Intermediate
1.32 Refresh 1:11 Beginner - Intermediate
1.33 Refresh All 2:11 Beginner - Intermediate

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1.34 Refresh External Data 6:00 Intermediate - Advanced
1.35 Import from Access database 2:18 Intermediate - Advanced
1.36 Change Data Source 3:31 Beginner - Intermediate
1.4 OPTIONS > ACTIONS
1.41 Clear Filters & Clear Pivot 1:08 Beginner - Intermediate
1.42 Select & format 3:26 Beginner - Intermediate
1.43 Move pivot table 0:50 Beginner - Intermediate
1.5 DESIGN > STYLES
1.51 Pivot Table Styles 3:44 Beginner - Intermediate
1.52 Customising a Pivot Table Style 4:14 Intermediate - Advanced
1.53 Use customised style in another workbook 1:17 Beginner - Intermediate
1.6 DESIGN > LAYOUT
1.61 Subtotals 1:00 Beginner - Intermediate
1.62 Grand Totals 0:53 Beginner - Intermediate
1.63 Report Layout 2:43 Beginner - Intermediate
1.64 Blank Row 0:33 Beginner - Intermediate
TIPS
1.65 Show the Classic Pivot Table Layout 0:58 Beginner - Intermediate
1.7 OPTIONS > SHOW
1.71 Expand & Collapse buttons 4:48 Beginner - Intermediate
1.72 Move & Remove Fields 2:37 Beginner - Intermediate
1.73 Show/Hide Field List 0:17 Beginner - Intermediate
1.74 Show/Hide Field Headers 0:17 Beginner - Intermediate
1.8 CUSTOMISATION
1.81 Change Count of to Sum of 1:08 Beginner - Intermediate
1.82 Number formatting 1:04 Beginner - Intermediate
1.83 Field name formatting 2:15 Beginner - Intermediate

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1.84 Predetermined number formatting 1:21 Beginner - Intermediate
1.85 Change Sum views in label areas 0:42 Beginner - Intermediate
1.9 PIVOT TABLE OPTIONS > LAYOUT & FORMAT
1.91 Indent rows in compact layout 0:05 Beginner - Intermediate
1.92 Change the layout of a report filter 1:18 Beginner - Intermediate
1.93 Format error values 0:54 Beginner - Intermediate
1.94 Format empty cells 1:18 Beginner - Intermediate
1.95 Keep column widths upon refresh 0:47 Beginner - Intermediate
TIPS
1.96 Automatic Refresh a pivot table 0:46 Beginner - Intermediate
1.97 Printing a pivot table on two pages 1:11 Beginner - Intermediate
1.98 Show report filter on multiple pages 2:13 Beginner - Intermediate

2 VALUE FIELD SETTINGS > SUMMARIZE VALUES BY

2.1 Create multiple subtotals 1:35 Beginner - Intermediate
2.2 Count 2:27 Beginner - Intermediate
2.3 Average 2:04 Beginner - Intermediate
2.4 Maximum 2:00 Beginner - Intermediate
2.5 Minimum 1:22 Beginner - Intermediate
2.6 Product 3:33 Beginner - Intermediate
2.7 Count Numbers 2:04 Beginner - Intermediate
2.8 Std Dev 7:05 Intermediate - Advanced
2.9 Varp 3:57 Intermediate - Advanced
TIPS
2.10 Show various Grand Totals 2:26 Beginner - Intermediate
2.11 Shortcuts to Field & Value Field Settings 2:01 Beginner - Intermediate
2.12 See all pivot Items 6:00 Intermediate - Advanced
2.13 Show a unique count 2:26 Beginner - Intermediate

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 3 VALUE FIELD SETTINGS > SHOW VALUES AS
3.1 % of Grand Total 2:11 Beginner - Intermediate
3.2 % of Column Total 2:11 Beginner - Intermediate
3.3 % of Row Total 1:05 Beginner - Intermediate
3.4 % Of 4:01 Beginner - Intermediate
3.5 % of Parent Row Total (NEW FROM EXCEL 2010) 3:09 Beginner - Intermediate
3.6 % of Parent Column Total (NEW FROM EXCEL 2010) 2:22 Beginner - Intermediate
3.7 % of Parent Total (NEW FROM EXCEL 2010) 3:20 Beginner - Intermediate
3.8 Difference From 4:44 Beginner - Intermediate
3.9 % Difference From 4:30 Beginner - Intermediate
3.10 Running Total in 2:12 Beginner - Intermediate
3.11 % Running Total in (NEW FROM EXCEL 2010) 3:10 Beginner - Intermediate
3.12 Rank Smallest to Largest (NEW FROM EXCEL 2010) 2:14 Beginner - Intermediate
3.13 Rank Largest to Smallest (NEW FROM EXCEL 2010) 2:15 Beginner - Intermediate
3.14 Index 3:38 Beginner - Intermediate
TIPS
3.15 Shortcuts to Show Values As 1:07 Beginner - Intermediate
BUSINESS CASE
3.16 ACCOUNTING: % of Revenue Margins 2:28 Beginner - Intermediate
3.17 FINANCIAL: Actual v Plan Variance Report 4:33 Beginner - Intermediate

4 GROUPING
4.1 Group by Date 2:45 Beginner - Intermediate
4.2 Group by Month 1:44 Beginner - Intermediate
4.3 Group by Quarters & Years 1:45 Beginner - Intermediate
4.4 Group by Sales ranges 3:12 Beginner - Intermediate
4.5 Group by Text fields 2:14 Beginner - Intermediate
4.6 Group by Time 1:45 Beginner - Intermediate

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 TIPS
4.7 Shortcuts to Grouping 1:35 Beginner - Intermediate
4.8 Grouping by Half Years 1:48 Beginner - Intermediate
4.9 Group by a Date that starts on a Monday 1:58 Beginner - Intermediate
4.10 Grouping by a custom date 1:41 Beginner - Intermediate
4.11 Group by fiscal years & quarters 6:44 Intermediate - Advanced
4.12 Errors when grouping by date 2:50 Beginner - Intermediate
4.13 Group two pivot tables independently 3:46 Beginner - Intermediate
4.14 Fixing the problem of counting grouped sales 0:35 Beginner - Intermediate
4.15 Display dates that have no data 0:49 Beginner - Intermediate
BUSINESS CASE
4.16 ACCOUNTING: Quarterly Comparative Report 6:35 Intermediate - Advanced
4.17 FINANCIAL: Min & Max Bank Balance 4:32 Beginner - Intermediate

5 SORT
5.1 Sorting by Largest or Smallest 1:57 Beginner - Intermediate
5.2 Sort an Item Row (Left to Right) 1:21 Beginner - Intermediate
5.3 Sort manually (drag, write, right click) 1:55 Beginner - Intermediate
5.4 Sort using a Custom List 3:22 Beginner - Intermediate
5.5 Override a Custom List sort 1:19 Beginner - Intermediate
5.6 Sort row from A-Z and sales from Z-A 1:14 Beginner - Intermediate
TIPS
5.7 Sort new items added to your data source 1:12 Beginner - Intermediate
5.8 Clear a sort 0:18 Beginner - Intermediate
5.9 Sort Largest to Smallest Grand Totals 0:16 Beginner - Intermediate

6 FILTER
6.1 Filter by Dates 6:45 Beginner - Intermediate

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6.2 Filter by Labels - Text 2:35 Beginner - Intermediate
6.3 Filter by Labels - Numerical Text 2:45 Beginner - Intermediate
6.4 Filter by Values 4:37 Beginner - Intermediate
6.5 Filter by Values - Top or Bottom 10 Items 2:04 Beginner - Intermediate
6.6 Filter by Values - Top or Bottom % 1:41 Beginner - Intermediate
6.7 Filter by Values - Top or Bottom Sum 1:39 Beginner - Intermediate
6.8 Filter by Report Filter 4:14 Beginner - Intermediate
TIPS
6.9 Shortcuts to filters 1:33 Beginner - Intermediate
6.10 Keep or hide selected items 0:48 Beginner - Intermediate
6.11 Filter by Text wildcards * and ? 3:11 Beginner - Intermediate
6.12 Filter by multiple fields 0:57 Beginner - Intermediate
6.13 Apply multiple filters 1:43 Beginner - Intermediate
6.14 Filter by multiple values 1:05 Beginner - Intermediate
6.15 Include new items in manual filter 1:50 Beginner - Intermediate
6.16 Clear filters with one click 1:32 Beginner - Intermediate
6.17 Add a filter for the column items 0:30 Beginner - Intermediate
BUSINESS CASE
6.18 ACCOUNTING: Top 5 Expenses report 2:20 Beginner - Intermediate
6.19 FINANCIAL: Top 25% of Channel Partners 2:08 Beginner - Intermediate

7 SLICERS (NEW FROM EXCEL 2010)

7.1 Insert a Slicer 4:12 Beginner - Intermediate
7.2 Slicer Styles 2:21 Beginner - Intermediate
7.3 Creating a custom style 6:19 Intermediate - Advanced
7.4 Copy a custom style into a new workbook 1:32 Beginner - Intermediate
7.5 Slicer Settings 4:46 Beginner - Intermediate
7.6 Slicer Size & Properties 3:03 Beginner - Intermediate
7.7 Slicer Connections for multiple pivot tables 3:18 Beginner - Intermediate

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 TIPS
7.8 Different ways to filter a Slicer 1:13 Beginner - Intermediate
7.9 Use one slicer for two pivot tables 1:16 Beginner - Intermediate
7.10 Lock the workbook but not the slicer 1:23 Beginner - Intermediate
7.11 Interactive employee photos with Slicers! FUN! 10:16 Intermediate - Advanced
BUSINESS CASE
7.12 ACCOUNTING: Select a Monthly P&L report with a Slicer 4:10 Beginner - Intermediate
7.13 FINANCIAL: Base, Best & Worst case Forecast 5:11 Intermediate - Advanced

8 CALCULATED FIELDS & ITEMS

8.1 Creating a Calculated Field 4:39 Beginner - Intermediate
8.2 Use an existing Calculated Field in a new calculation 2:21 Beginner - Intermediate
8.3 Editing a Calculated Field 1:59 Beginner - Intermediate
8.4 Excel formulas & Calculated Fields 3:03 Beginner - Intermediate
8.5 Creating a Calculated Item 4:18 Beginner - Intermediate
8.6 Use an existing Calculated Item in a new calculation 1:37 Beginner - Intermediate
8.7 Editing a Calculated Item 2:20 Beginner - Intermediate
8.8 Excel formulas & Calculated Items 1:48 Beginner - Intermediate
8.9 Calculated Item on Column Labels 2:21 Beginner - Intermediate
8.10 Shortcomings of Calculated Items 1:48 Beginner - Intermediate
TIPS
8.11 Solve Order for Calculated Items 4:23 Intermediate - Advanced
8.12 List Calculated Field & Item formulas 1:04 Beginner - Intermediate
8.13 Remove a Calculated Field temporarily 0:51 Beginner - Intermediate
8.14 Order of operations 1:48 Beginner - Intermediate

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 BUSINESS CASE
8.15 ACCOUNTING: Creating a P&L Pivot Table Report 8:15 Intermediate - Advanced
8.16 FINANCIAL: Actuals v Plan with Calculated Fields 6:26 Beginner - Intermediate

9 PIVOT CHARTS
9.1 Insert a Pivot Chart 3:18 Beginner - Intermediate
9.2 Insert a Slicer with a Pivot Chart 1:50 Beginner - Intermediate
9.3 Pivot Chart Designs 3:49 Beginner - Intermediate
9.4 Pivot Chart Layouts 4:59 Beginner - Intermediate
9.5 Pivot Chart Formats 5:50 Beginner - Intermediate
9.6 Limitations of Pivot Charts & workarounds 1:54 Beginner - Intermediate
9.7 Saving a pivot chart template 1:26 Beginner - Intermediate
TIPS
9.8 Shortcuts to formatting a Pivot Chart 1:15 Beginner - Intermediate
9.9 Link chart title to a pivot cell 0:55 Beginner - Intermediate
9.10 Copying a second chart 0:41 Beginner - Intermediate
9.11 Put a chart on a separate page with F11 0:27 Beginner - Intermediate
9.12 Insert Pivot Chart straight from the data source 0:49 Beginner - Intermediate
9.13 Paste Pivot Chart to your email as a picture 1:02 Beginner - Intermediate
9.14 Paste Pivot Chart to PowerPoint & make live updates 1:26 Beginner - Intermediate
9.15 Printing a Pivot Chart 1:18 Beginner - Intermediate
9.16 Include a Sparkline with your pivot table (NEW FROM EXCEL 2010) 1:14 Beginner - Intermediate
9.17 Charts Do´s & Don'ts 2:51 Beginner - Intermediate
9.18 Change Chart Type with Slicers! FUN!!! 8:28 Intermediate - Advanced
9.19 Workaround to creating an interactive Scatter graph 2:17 Beginner - Intermediate
BUSINESS CASE
9.20 ACCOUNTING: P&L Pivot Table report with Graphs 8:18 Intermediate - Advanced
9.21 FINANCIAL: Pivot Table Slicer & Chart Dashboard 15:45 Intermediate - Advanced

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 10 CONDITIONAL FORMATTING PIVOT TABLES
10.1 Intro to conditional formatting 2:33 Beginner - Intermediate
10.2 Highlight Cell Rules based on values 1:18 Beginner - Intermediate
10.3 Highlight Cell Rules based on text labels 0:44 Beginner - Intermediate
10.4 Highlight Cell Rules based on date labels 1:13 Beginner - Intermediate
10.5 Top & Bottom Rules 3:23 Beginner - Intermediate
10.6 Data Bars, Colour Scales & Icon Sets (NEW FROM EXCEL 2010) 5:49 Beginner - Intermediate
TIPS
10.7 Format only cells that contain - For Bonuses 1:39 Beginner - Intermediate
10.8 Format only Top or Bottom ranked values - Top 3 sales per year 1:30 Beginner - Intermediate
10.9 Format values that are above or below the average - For Promotions 1:36 Beginner - Intermediate
10.10 Use a formula to determine which cells to format 2:33 Beginner - Intermediate
10.11 Use selected cells to format multiple fields 1:30 Beginner - Intermediate
10.12 All cells showing values to format multiple fields 1:30 Beginner - Intermediate
10.13 Control Conditional Formatting with Slicers 2:52 Intermediate - Advanced
10.14 Show text in the Pivot Table Values area 4:42 Intermediate - Advanced
10.15 Cond Format blank cells or cells 1:04 Beginner - Intermediate
BUSINESS CASE
10.16 ACCOUNTING: Accounts Receivable Ageing Report Matrix 6:08 Intermediate - Advanced
10.17 FINANCIAL: Conditionally Format your sales results 3:24 Beginner - Intermediate

11 GETPIVOTDATA formula
11.1 Intro to GETPIVOTDATA 4:59 Beginner - Intermediate
11.2 Create a custom report with GETPIVOTDATA 5:15 Intermediate - Advanced
11.3 Reference Dates with GETPIVOTDATA 3:12 Beginner - Intermediate
11.4 Data validation with GETPIVOTDATA 2:45 Beginner - Intermediate
11.5 Shortfalls of GETPIVOTDATA 1:38 Beginner - Intermediate

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11.6 Grand Totals to the left of the pivot table 3:11 Intermediate - Advanced
BUSINESS CASE
11.7 ACCOUNTING: Live forecasting with GETPIVOTDATA 7:14 Intermediate - Advanced
11.8 FINANCIAL: Channel Analysis with GETPIVOTDATA 5:20 Intermediate - Advanced

12 MACROS
12.1 Adding the Developer tab & disabling macros 2:31 Beginner - Intermediate
12.2 Record a simple macro to Refresh a pivot table 4:18 Intermediate - Advanced
12.3 Date filter macro 4:26 Intermediate - Advanced
12.4 Different pivot table views macro 4:33 Intermediate - Advanced
12.5 Top 10 macro 3:26 Beginner - Intermediate
12.6 Add macro to quick access toolbar 1:10 Beginner - Intermediate

13 DATA MANAGEMENT
13.1 Reducing file memory by copying existing pivot table 0:50 Beginner - Intermediate
13.2 Reducing file memory by deleting the data source 1:36 Beginner - Intermediate
13.3 Reducing file memory by saving file as Excel Binary Workbook 0:47 Beginner - Intermediate
13.4 Reducing file memory by keeping data source in MS Access 2:02 Beginner - Intermediate
13.5 Compatibility Issues with Excel 2007 and Excel 2010 1:05 Beginner - Intermediate
13.6 Sharing a Pivot Table via OneDrive 2:39 Beginner - Intermediate

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 14 BONUS VIDEOS
14.1 Sales Forecasting with Calculated Fields 4:11 Beginner - Intermediate
14.2 Consolidate with a Pivot Table 3:14 Beginner - Intermediate
14.3 Frequency distribution with a Pivot Table 2:06 Beginner - Intermediate
14.4 Break Even Model 2:55 Beginner - Intermediate
14.5 Several slicer custom styles for you to use 1:53 Beginner - Intermediate
14.6 Interactive Balance Sheet Pivot Table 12:11 Intermediate - Advanced
14.7 Monthly Sales Manager Performance Report 4:25 Intermediate - Advanced
14.8 Reconciling vendor payments 2:00 Beginner - Intermediate
14.9 Pivot Power Add-In to make you more efficient 4:00 Beginner - Intermediate

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