Up-to-date information can be critical; these 4 tips will add flexibility and increase efficiency when refreshing pivot tables.

Of course, if you've embraced pivot tables, you've probably discovered their Achilles' heel: They can't be edited. Enter Pivot4U, an Excel add-in that lets you edit pivot tables.

Pivot tables are one of several Excel tools for extracting meaning out of large groups of numeric data. They can be applied whenever raw data in a spreadsheet or database has to be summarized.

The pivot table is a collection of tools that Excel uses to create reports from complex, multi-file spreadsheet data. Here's how to generate reports for single tables ...

Pivot tables generate great reports in Microsoft Excel, but adding a filter or two can make them even more flexible. Here's how.