The Complete Excel Pivot Tables Course: Beginner to Advanced (Udemy.com)
Learn and Master Pivot Tables in Excel with this Beginner to Advanced course from Microsoft experts, Simon Sez IT!
Created by: Simon Sez IT
Last updated March 2023
What you will learn
- Cleaning and preparing your data
- How to create PivotTables
- Using the fields pane and adding fields and calculated fields
- How to use the value field settings
- Formatting numbers in PivotTable
- Different ways to summarize data
- Grouping and ungrouping PivotTable data and dealing with errors
- Using multiple fields and dimension
- Methods of aggregation
- Choosing and locking the report layout
- How to format PivotTables and apply styles
- Basic to advanced sorting and filtering
- Creating PivotCharts and adding sparklines and slicers
- Selecting the right chart to present your data
- Adding slicers and timelines and applying them to multiple tables
- Combining data from multiple worksheets for a PivotTable
- All about the GETPIVOTDATA function
- How to use 3D maps from a PivotTable
- Adding new data to the original source dataset
How it compares
Against the other 355 rated Udemy courses in Excel on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 39% of them
- Reviews523#224 of 356 by number of reviews
- Length15.2 hourslonger than 84% of them
- Last updatedMarch 2023earlier than 56% of them
Course Description
**This course includes downloadable course instructor files and exercise files to work with and follow along.**
Data analysis is essential in today’s data-driven world. Data is crucial in understanding businesses, analyzing trends, and forecasting your business needs. It is crucial that you have the relevant skills to handle and analyze data efficiently.
PivotTable is a vital Excel skill for big data analysis and visualization jobs. PivotTables are an interactive way of quickly summarizing large amounts of data by grouping and aggregating datasets, letting you analyze the information in a clear and effective manner.
This course will discuss the importance of cleaning your data before creating your first PivotTable. You will also learn how to create PivotCharts and format your PivotTables and charts. We teach you how to make the most of this powerful data analysis tool by using some of its advanced features, including advanced sorting, slicers, timelines, calculated fields, and conditional formatting.
This course is aimed at those brand new to PivotTables and also intermediate users looking to expand their Excel skills. You can download the Excel data files that the instructor uses in the tutorials so you can readily follow along.
This course covers:
Cleaning and preparing your data
How to create PivotTables
Using the fields pane and adding fields and calculated fields
How to use the value field settings
Formatting numbers in PivotTable
Different ways to summarize data
Grouping and ungrouping PivotTable data and dealing with errors
Using multiple fields and dimension
Methods of aggregation
Choosing and locking the report layout
How to format PivotTables and apply styles
Basic to advanced sorting and filtering
Creating PivotCharts and adding sparklines and slicers
Selecting the right chart to present your data
Adding slicers and timelines and applying them to multiple tables
Combining data from multiple worksheets for a PivotTable
All about the GETPIVOTDATA function
How to use 3D maps from a PivotTable
Adding new data to the original source dataset
Updating your data in a PivotTable and PivotChart
Using conditional formatting in a PivotTable
How to create amazing dashboards
This course bundle includes:
13+ hours of video tutorials
100+ individual video lectures
Certificate of completion
Course and exercise files to follow along
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
523 Reviews
Simon Sez IT
Since 2008, individuals, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies with thousands of employees have benefited from the easy and hands-on software training offered by Simon Sez IT. With over 12,000 video tutorials on a range of software programs, Simon Sez IT ensures stress-free eLearning and enhanced employee productivity - no matter whether you are implementing new software or a technological upgrade for your workplace. With over 1 million Udemy students in over 190 countries, Simon Sez IT is the preferred online learning choice for individuals and businesses everywhere.
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Reviews
By Rob Manson on 3/11/2026
A bit of a boring start but the instructor has excellent technique. I stayed with it thru the early lessons because the side details were also a learning experience.
By Barbara Stunić Lovasić on 8/25/2025
Good for beginners, goes through all the things you should know for a beginner and do basic Pivot tables, the advanced part could have more features without going through ALL the information that was in the beginning part.
By Juan Aguirre on 4/30/2025
More than half of the advance course (at least 75%) has the same information that the beginners course; overall there is a lot of repeated information. However, I find the course valuable but it could be much more shorter.
By Mark Pratt on 3/9/2025
This was an excellent course. Special thanks to Deborah Ashby for the concise and detailed instructions, and a pleasant learning experience. I would love the opportunity to take an in person class from her. The content was provided in an easy to follow way and each section builds upon the next. I highly recommend this class for anyone wanting to learn pivot tables and where you can go from there.
By Christoforos Nicolaides on 2/25/2025
So far the lectures are very good. Clear examples. Easy to follow. practicing during the lectures which helps to understand clarifying everything. Definitely 5 stars
By Zach OBrennan on 9/28/2023
A great full understanding of Pivot Tables is given. The only tricky part now will be implementing this into my current reporting, but that's on me and the tools I learned here. Worth the money, worth the time. Thank you.
By Saingghech Ung on 1/24/2023
This class is very informative. I learnt a lot of new things about excel after taking this course. Very easy to follow along and highly recommended for those who wants to learn more about excel and how to use a pivot table. Overall, this is awesome!
By John Keel on 1/23/2023
The course is a perfect match for my knowledge level. Debra uses a proper pace - not to fast - not too slow. The included sample datasets are great for practicing the information learned.
By Sachin on 12/31/2022
The course did exactly what it said and it worked for me perfectly besides one small issue of CREATING RELATIONSHIPS in Pivot Table. I have pasted a query but nobody from the course instructor team replied. So, one less star for that.
By Dale Pearce on 6/11/2022
I found this course to be very easy to follow, everything was explained clearly. Deb is a very good presenter and I will be looking to do more Microsoft courses where she is the presenter.
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Overall Score : 90 / 100












