Week 9: Muddy

Pivot tables are the least user friendly gadgets ever invented. It is absolutely incredible to me how useful and powerful this excel program is. This week I found the topic of pivot tables to be extraordinarily difficult and I am surprised that I have come to understand them as well as I do now.

I found a lot of very useful information on pivot tables on the Microsoft website and I felt that it helped to clear up some of the very basic conceptual problems that I had with the application of the pivot table.

The pivot table is a very powerful tool that can be used to extract meaningful data from a spreadsheet quickly and effectively. The only problem that I still have with the program is that it feels like steering the Titanic when it starts to misbehave, and I feel that you have to become a master with the program before it will treat you kindly.