When you have a long list of fields in an Excel 2003 pivot table, it can take a long time to drag them into the pivot table layout, using the PivotTable Wizard. For a quicker way to add the fields, don’t go into the Layout screen in Step 3 — just click the Finish button. [...]

To make the pivot table easier to read, you might like each item in a pivot table field to be followed by a blank row. You can’t insert the rows manually, because Excel will display an error message if you try that method. However, in any of the pivot table report layouts, you can format [...]