Create a Sales Summary from a Microsoft Access Database

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If you’re working on a sales report, you can create an overview of sales results to see how well sales representatives are doing and which products are selling the most. To do so, store details about each order in a Microsoft Access sales database, and then switch to Microsoft Excel to summarize the data. Microsoft Excel can automatically create an interactive table, called a PivotTable, that summarizes large amounts of data. The PivotTable stays current because whenever you change information in the sales database, it’s automatically updated in the PivotTable as well.

To complete the steps in this topic   you need to have Microsoft Office, Professional Edition or an individual copy of Microsoft Access installed. You also need to have sales data stored in a Microsoft Access database.