A practical, realistic, easy-to-understand guide to Excel's most powerful and underutilized features: PivotTables and PivotCharts. Even for students who have never created a pivot table before, this book will help them leverage all their amazing flexibility and analytical power. Drawing on more than 40 combined years of Excel experience, Bill Jelen and Michael Alexander offer practical "recipes” for solving real business problems, help learners avoid common mistakes, and present tips and tricks found nowhere else.