When you have a massive Excel workbook overflowing with data, trying to make sense of it can feel like a tough task at times. Be it sales data, client names, product segments, dates, or ...

If you've have lots of data and lots of analysis to do, but little time or skill, you need Excel's Power Pivot feature. Here's how to get started with it.

Excel’s PivotTables (Microsoft runs the words together, although you?ll find pivot tables in other spreadsheet programs) can provide those types of answers. Do you want to group data by category?

Pivot tables are like the Swiss army knife of data analysis in Excel. And trust me … They look scary at first, but they’re so easy to use once you learn the underpinning logic that powers them.

A pivot table is a useful tool in data analysis that can give you an overview of your data. We'll show you how to create one in Excel and Google Sheets.

VIDEO: Pivot tables are easy to create and invaluable if you have a lot of data to sort through.