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

I hope this will be the definitive guide to pivot tables for anyone in this industry who has yet to feel one hundred percent comfortable with this crucial Excel feature.

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.

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 ...