The video lesson provides a complete introduction to Excel's Slicers feature.
Slicers allow you to create interfaces to filter pivot tables that are easy to use even on tablet computers. This lesson shows how to create slicers and format them to create an attractive user interface. You'll then see how they can be used to filter a pivot table in a more user friendly way than report filter fields and how slicers can be used with ordinary Excel tables.
This video comes from the Pivot Tables session (Session 5 in our Excel Expert Skills free video training course):