Excel Pivot Tables
If you accidentally delete the Excel 2003 worksheet that has the source data for your pivot table, you may be able to use the pivot table’s Drill to Details feature to re-create it. ...
Excel Pivot Tables
A common question is “How can I show text in a pivot table’s values area, instead of numbers?” For example, if you add the Region field to the Values area, you’d like to see the region’s name, instead of a Count Of Region number. If you...
Excel Pivot Tables
If your pivot table has column labels, and more than one field in the Values area, you might want to centre the column labels. For example, in the pivot table shown below, there are Region headings in the Column Labels area...
Excel Pivot Tables
In Excel 2003, and earlier versions, the items in a page field’s dropdown list don’t have check boxes to indicate which items to show and which to hide. In the pivot table shown below, the Product field is in the page area. It’s easy to select one product, such as Chocolate Chip. Or, ...
Excel Pivot Tables

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Excel Pivot Tables

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Excel Pivot Tables
Usually, things go smoothly when you when you try to create a pivot table. In the screen shot shown below, there’s a list of sales orders, and we’d like to create a pivot table from that data. ...
Excel Pivot Tables

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Excel Pivot Tables
After you create a calculated item in a pivot table, you might need to change its formula. For example, in this pivot table there’s a calculated item named Sold, in the Order Status field. The Sold item sums the orders with a status of Shipped, Pending, or Backorder. ...
Excel Pivot Tables
In a comment on this blog, someone asked how to create two pivot tables on the same Excel worksheet. Shown below is a worksheet named Pivot_Reports, with a pivot table on it, based on the data on the Sales_East sheet...
Excel Pivot Tables
When you add multiple fields to the Row Labels area in a pivot table, subtotals automatically appear for the outer fields. In the pivot table shown below, Region and City fields are in the Row Labels area...
Excel Pivot Tables
In Excel 2010, filter data for multiple pivot tables with one set of slicers...
Excel Pivot Tables
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Excel Pivot Tables
When you create a pivot chart, the series order is automatically applied. In this example, the product categories had been manually sorted in the pivot table. In the pivot chart legend, the products are in the same order: Crackers, Snacks, Bars and Cookies...
Excel Pivot Tables
Sometimes there are errors in the source data on which a pivot table is based. In most cases, I like to see the errors on the worksheet, so that problems are easy to spot. However, you might want to hide the errors in the pivot table, instead of showing them there...