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Excel Pivot Tables & Dashboards: Basic to Advanced

Go from your first Pivot Table to a multi-page interactive sales dashboard, with real practice files and step-by-step projects.

7h 33mBeginner to Advanced79 lessons
Created by NextGenTemplates Academy

What you’ll learn

  • Prepare clean data and build Pivot Tables with confidence
  • Summarize and compare data with Value Field Settings and Show Values As
  • Make reports interactive with slicers, timelines, search and cross-filtering
  • Add calculated fields, calculated items, conditional formatting and sparklines
  • Connect Pivot Tables to other workbooks, CSV, web, PDF and multiple sheets
  • Build a sales report, an expense tracker and a multi-page sales dashboard

A practical route to better work.

A complete, project-based Pivot Table course. Start with clean data and Pivot Table basics, then master Value Field Settings, slicers, timelines, grouping, calculated fields, styles, Pivot Charts and AI-assisted analysis. Connect Pivot Tables to tables, other workbooks, CSV files, websites, PDFs and multiple sheets with Power Query, then build a sales report, an expense tracking dashboard and a multi-page interactive sales dashboard from scratch. Every lesson includes the practice workbook used in the video.

Inside the course

13 modules · 79 lessons
MODULE 01Welcome and Pivot Table Foundations+
Course preview: what you will build2 minPreview
Course roadmap and how to use the practice files3 minPreview
What is a Pivot Table?2 minPreview
Clean your data before building a Pivot Table3 min
Pivot Table basics: rows, columns, values and filters4 min
MODULE 02Value Field Settings+
Value Field Settings explained3 min
Number formatting in Value Field Settings2 min
Summarize Values By: sum, count, average and more2 min
Show Values As: % of total, running total, rank9 min
MODULE 03Sort, Filter, Slicers, Timelines and Grouping+
Sorting data in a Pivot Table2 min
Filters in a Pivot Table7 min
Slicers for interactive filtering8 min
Timelines for date filtering4 min
Grouping and ungrouping dates, numbers and text6 min
MODULE 04Calculated Fields and Items+
Calculated Fields5 min
Calculated Items5 min
MODULE 05Layouts, Styles and Formatting+
Report layouts: compact, outline and tabular3 min
Preset and custom Pivot Table styles7 min
Preset and custom Slicer styles5 min
Preset and custom Timeline styles3 min
Sparklines with Pivot Tables6 min
Conditional formatting in Pivot Tables7 min
MODULE 06Pivot Charts+
Pivot Charts: section overview2 min
Create your first Pivot Chart7 min
Clustered and stacked column charts8 min
Bar and stacked bar charts6 min
Line and area charts4 min
Pie and doughnut charts5 min
Combo chart (column + line)4 min
Connect slicers to Pivot Charts8 min
Expand and collapse buttons on Pivot Charts5 min
YTD sales chart3 min
MODULE 07Advanced and Infographic Charts with Pivot Tables+
Advanced charts: section overview1 min
Sales heat map8 minPreview
Histogram chart4 min
Infographic chart8 min
Progress bar chart7 min
Male / female infographic chart7 min
Star rating chart6 min
Filled circle chart8 min
Semi-circle chart6 min
Speedometer chart with a slicer11 min
Progress circle chart with a slicer7 min
Vertical battery chart8 min
Horizontal battery chart5 min
MODULE 08AI and Pivot Table Options+
AI-assisted Pivot Table analysis5 min
Pivot Table Options: Layout & Format7 min
Pivot Table Options: totals, filters, display and data10 min
Default Pivot Table settings5 min
Move a Pivot Table2 min
Report Filter Pages: one sheet per item3 min
Use Pivot Tables in PowerPoint3 min
GETPIVOTDATA explained4 min
MODULE 09Advanced Interactivity+
Cross-filtering multiple Pivot Tables4 min
Add a search box to a Slicer5 min
Dynamic named range with OFFSET6 min
MODULE 10Connect Pivot Tables to Data Sources+
Connect a Pivot Table to an Excel Table3 min
Connect to another Excel file4 min
Connect to a CSV or text file3 min
Connect to website data5 min
MODULE 11Multiple Tables, Sheets and PDF with Power Query+
Multiple tables: Append method7 min
Pivot Table from multiple sheets5 min
Multiple tables: Merge method6 min
Pivot Table from a PDF file8 min
PDF files with the File.Contents method3 min
MODULE 12Projects: Sales Report and Expense Tracking Dashboard+
Project: Sales report with Pivot Tables12 min
Project: Expense tracking dashboard (part 1)12 min
Project: Expense tracking dashboard (part 2)12 min
MODULE 13Capstone: Multi-Page Interactive Sales Dashboard+
Dashboard demo: what we will build3 minPreview
Understand the dashboard data4 min
Design the dashboard pages12 min
Page navigation with hyperlinks3 min
Overview page: Pivot Tables7 min
Overview page: charts14 min
Product Performance page8 min
Sales Rep Analysis page10 min
Financial Summary page8 min
Monthly Trends page7 min
Custom slicers across all pages7 min

Practice files

38 downloadable practice workbooks to follow along with the lessons.

Video lessons

79 step-by-step video lessons (7h 33m), streamed securely.

Certificate of completion

Complete the course to download a certificate of completion with a unique certificate ID.

Is this course for you?

  • Working professionals who prepare recurring Excel reports
  • Analysts and students who want to build dashboards in Excel
  • Managers and small-business owners who make decisions from Excel data

Before you start

  • Basic Excel navigation and simple formulas
  • Microsoft Excel 2016 or later for Windows (Microsoft 365 recommended for AI and Power Query lessons)

Your teaching team

NextGenTemplates Academy

NextGenTemplates Academy

Practical professional learning from the team behind NextGenTemplates. Focused on spreadsheets, reporting, dashboards, analytics and AI-assisted productivity.

Good to know

How do I buy a course, and which payment methods can I use?+

Choose a course, select Add to cart and complete checkout. With an Indian billing address you pay in INR through Razorpay, using UPI, cards or net banking. From any other country you pay in USD through PayPal, including debit and credit cards. It is a one-time payment, and the course appears in My Learning as soon as payment is confirmed.

Can I learn at my own pace?+

Yes. Lessons are organized into modules, and signed-in learners can save their progress and resume where they left off.

Are practice files included?+

Yes. Practice files are included with each paid course and can be downloaded from the course once you are enrolled. They are for your personal learning and your own internal work.

Will I receive a certificate?+

Yes. When you complete all required lessons (and any knowledge check or assignment in the course), you can download a certificate of completion with a unique certificate ID. It confirms course completion; it is not an academic or professional accreditation.

How long will I have course access?+

You get lifetime access: you can use the course for as long as NextGenTemplates Academy operates and offers it, as described in the Course Access Policy. There is no subscription or renewal fee.

Can I get a refund?+

Courses are digital content with immediate access, so purchases are generally non-refundable. Limited exceptions are explained in the Refund Policy.