Looking for advice on pivot tables

[Guloluseus]

I use pivot tables a lot. Mot because I want to, but because another programme MS Project) I use creates them for exporting data. It also produces pretty graphs, which tend to be what my co workers and client want to see (as its a pretty graph).

I have managed to work through the tables that get spat out, and can make them look more or less as I want them, but still have a few problems. The main one is where I get a graph of resource use over time (plant and labour). I can split this into individual items- e.g. just show labourers or pavers- and can adjust time scales. One of things I cannot do is adjust the axis- MSP calculates in hours, and I need to show by days. Apologies for the bad description, its really just an example of what I cant do.

The question is not how do I do these things, but does anyone have recommendations for a fairly straightforward, simple, book/blog/website etc. that I can run through to give me more knowledge? Most of what I have gone through assumes a greater knowledge of pivot tables than I have, and trying to work up from something that is beyond me in the first place is a lot more work than I can really spend- the tables are the icing on the cake as it were, as opposed to the end result.



Thanks in advance, hopefulyl someone can set me right on this

[Pecoflyer]

As you are using 2010 perhaps have a look at the free PowerPivot Add-in provided by Microsoft to help you with PT's.
A good place for info http://www.contextures.com/CreatePivotTable.html ( there are probably many more)
For charts http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/ChartIndex.html

[Guloluseus]

Thanks for that Peco- looks like a nice simple explanation, just what I needed.
If anything comes up will post back, but looks like I have something good towork with