Create a Sales Summary

Topic at a glance

Chances are, you have all the detailed data you need to make decisions, but it isn’t always presented in a way that makes it easy to draw conclusions from it. For example, suppose what you want is the big picture: How is each product selling? Who is selling the most of each product?

From the same data, you can create several instant summaries, called PivotTables, to answer your questions. If you work with sales figures or other similar business data, Microsoft Excel can rapidly produce the summaries you want from the details you have.