Pivot tables can be formatted in a variety of ways, including the border styles and a full range of options for formatting text, numbers, cell color and pattern. Selective Hiding . Pivot table rows or columns can be hidden to focus on other parts of the table. This hidden data can be easily retrieved when later desired. Additional Documentation Capabilities.
Pivot tables can have a title, caption and footnotes to fully document the information in the table.
OLE 2.0 Functionality. Pivot tables are OLE 2.0 objects. There is not a single new procedure added to SPSS that creates a pivot table. Rather, the current SPSS procedures are being updated so that all of their output is displayed as a series of pivot tables and charts. The output from all procedures is stored in a single document, which includes text, pivot tables, and charts.