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Part V
Analyzing Data with Excel
FIGURE 35.28
This worksheet lists calculated fields and items for the pivot table.
FIGURE 35.29
This custom list ensures that the Region names are sorted correctly.
Producing a Report with a Pivot Table
By using a pivot table, you can convert a huge table of data into an attractive printed report. Figure 35.30
shows a small portion of a pivot table that I created from a table that has 25,664 rows of data. This data
happens to be my digital music collection, and each row contains information about a single music file: The
genre, the artist name, the album, the file name, the file size, and the duration.
The pivot table report created from this data is 119 pages long, and it took about five minutes to set up
(and a little longer to fine-tune it).
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