Video Training / Learning Office Tutorials →Excel PivotTables for Beginners (2026)

Learn PivotTables from scratch with Excel expert Deb Ashby—covering setup, slicers, formatting, date grouping, data refresh, and AI-powered PivotTables with Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Course details

PivotTables don't have to be intimidating! This powerful Excel feature can transform hours of manual work into a clean, interactive summary in minutes. In this beginner-friendly course, Excel expert Deb Ashby demystifies PivotTables and walks you through everything you need to start analyzing data with confidence. Deb covers foundational concepts, how to prep your data, and how to build a PivotTable from scratch—including value fields, row fields, filters, slicers, and date grouping. She also shows how to refresh your PivotTable as data changes. Finally, she introduces Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel, showing you how to generate PivotTables using AI—and how to verify the output.

Skills covered

Microsoft Copilot, Pivot Tables, Microsoft Excel

Homepage

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/excel-pivottables-for-beginners-44681017