The Refresh button will update your pivot table to reflect any changes in your existing data, such as any changes to our sales data due to customer returns. It's important to understand what these buttons do, and how they differ: We are interested in just two buttons on this toolbar - the Refresh button and the Change Data Source button: This will show you a range of different options for managing your pivot table. The next step is to click inside your pivot table so that the Pivot Table tools options appear in the ribbon toolbar, as shown here:įrom there, click Options in Excel 2010 or earlier, or Analyze in Excel 2013. As you can see, we now have 924 rows of data: Here's a shot of some of our additional data. In our case, we'll simply paste the additional rows of data into the existing sales data table.
In order to demonstrate how to update the data in your pivot table, let's look at the example we used in our lesson on How to Create A Pivot Table (link opens in a new window), where we summarized several months of sales data by different sales people in our team. Scenario: you have a pivot table containing sales data that needs updating with new data But data changes often, which means you also need to be able to update your pivot tables to reflect the new or changed data. When you create a new Pivot Table, Excel either uses the source data you selected or automatically selects the data for you. After all, that is why Peltier is on his roof.This lesson shows you how to refresh existing data, and add new data to an existing Excel pivot table. I can promise you that in most situations using an alternative is better and easier than you thought. How can a Pie chart help my audience understand my point?.What is it that I am trying to tell here?.Next time you set out to make a pie chart, I suggest you to spend a minute and think about, I think we make pie charts because they are safe. Pie chart is not the devil, a pie chart that fails to tell the story is. We have successfully converted a gazillion sliced pie chart to something meaningful and simple. You can speed up this step by setting first slice’s fill color to none and then using F4 key to repeat the last action (ie setting color to none) on other slices. Individually select each slice in the second pie and set the fill color to “none”. Format the Second Pie so that it is Invisible
Select “Split series by” and set it to “percentage”.
(In excel 2003, you have to go to “options” tab in format dialog to change this). We will ask excel to split the pies by Percentage. In the resulting dialog, you can change the way excel splits 2 pies.
Click on any slice and go to “format series”Ĭlick on any slice and hit CTRL+1 or right click and select format option. Select “Pie of Pie” chart, the one that looks like this:Īt this point the chart should look something like this:Ģ. Just select your data and go to Insert > Chart. Select Your Data Create a Pie of Pie Chart Interested? Then just follow these steps. The beauty of this trick is, it is completely automatic and all you have to do is formatting. We will take the pie chart on left and convert it to the one on right. Today I want to teach you a simple pie chart hack that can improve readability of the chart while retaining most of the critical information intact. In fact I will go ahead and say that pie charts are actually the most widely used charts in business contexts. Jon Peltier can stand on his roof and shout in to a megaphone “ Use Bar Charts, Not Pies“, but the fact remains that most of us use pie charts sometime or other.