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Automating Excel reports with PivotTables and slicers

Join our webinar to learn how PivotTables, slicers and other functions let you automate your reports and dashboards in an extremely efficient way.

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Excel example used in the webinar
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Andrej Lapajne

Founder & CEO at Zebra BI

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(10:07) Creating a report from the pivot table
(10:14) Inserting a pivot table
(11:11) Formatting the pivot table
(12:18) Creating an interactive chart from a pivot table
(15:11) Disable autofit column widths on update
(17:18) Linking data to a new table without pivot table formula
(18:06) Flexibility of charts and linking values out of the pivot table
(20:53) Creating a report on a page layout
(21:13) Preparing the data: Transferring the pivot table to a page layout
(21:52) Linking the labels and inserting the charts
(24:09) Inserting borders
(25:26) Creating a column marker
(26:40) Aligning the labels
(27:10) Linking the pivot table to the report
(27:59) Inserting a Slicer
(30:15) Designing a Slicer
(30:21) Adjusting columns and rows
(32:20) Creating your own Slicer style
(34:11) Setting format – whole Slicer: Fonts, borders, fill
(34:53) Editing Header: Fonts, borders, fill
(35:30) Editing selected item with data: Fonts, borders, fill
(36:29) Editing unselected item with data: Fonts, borders, fill
(37:19) Editing hovered selected item with data: Fonts, borders, fill
(40:28) Editing and viewing the reports
(41:37) Publishing reports to SharePoint
(44:30) Creating a static chart from a pivot table
(45:29) Copying the worksheet
(46:00) Refreshing the tables
(46:13) Exporting your worksheets to PDF
(47:11) Exporting your worksheets to Excel Workbook
(48:51) Synchronized Slicer: Changed pivot table
(50:38) Adjusting Slicer navigation: Synchronizing Slicer with the filter
(52:59) Q & A
(1:03:22) Zebra BI resources and social media presence
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