was purchased and then we have things like um you know how much these things cost the quantity that was that was ordered so we have order quantity unit cost unit price then we have the profit cost and revenue all things that we almost everything in here we can in some way put into a pivot table now i’m not going to go through every single variation of that but we are going to be um looking at a lot of this revenue over here because i think it’s it’s pretty easy to show the value of a pivot table with especially with you know currency or money so what we’re going to do to get started is we’re going to go up to insert and we’re going to click on insert and then we’re going to click on pivot table now really quick there is a recommended pivot tables and if you click on that what will come up is some recommendations that excel gives based on the data that you have and it can kind of give you some ideas of of what you can do with pivot tables it’s going to generate it for you we’re not going