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How to add a cell reference to Date Filter in Excel Pivot Tables

I have a date in cell C3, I want the Pivot table to only show expenses from that day. I tried entering the cell reference in this field to create a custom filter but it does not work. I also tried ...
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How to get count in pivot table that does NOT count duplicate entries

I am setting up a pivot table, and I would like for it to give me the count of the number of unique combinations of two fields, not just the total count. That is, each combination should only be ...
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Calculating a CAGR in Excel 2007 Pivot Table

I'm trying to calculate a compound average growth rate or CAGR in an Excel 2007 pivot table. I am familiar with the CAGR formula: ((End Value / Start Value)^(1/N)) -1, where N is the number of ...
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How to "unpivot" or "reverse pivot" in Excel?

I have data that looks like this: Id | Loc1 | Loc2 | Loc3 | Loc4 ---+------+------+------+----- 1 | NY | CA | TX | IL 2 | WA | OR | NH | RI And I want to convert it to this: Id | ...
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Refreshing Pivot Table clears Values and Column Labels fields

When I attempt to refresh an Excel Pivot table (by right click .. Refresh), all of the Column Labels & Values fields disappear, leaving only Row Label fields and an empty Pivot Table. How can I ...
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Get count of categories present in a column in separate columns in pivot table in excel

I have a pivot table which looks like Now I want to get count of each category in State column in a separate column. Something like this. I tried creating a pivot table, but the format is not what I ...
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How to keep pivot table from expanding into occupied rows and columns

I have a pivot table with other calculations surrounding it. My issue is that if more row/column groupings are added to the pivot table, it extends and reaches the cells where these other calculations ...
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Conditionally formatting a cell in a pivot table based on a range of cells grouped by a Column Label

Within my pivot table I currently have cells conditionally formatted- Value=1, Green and Value=0, Yellow. I would like to conditionally format based upon all the values within a row label underneath a ...
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Excel 2007 Pivot Tables: Overlapping issue hampers my summary sheet

I've created a Workbook that has 5 Pivot Tables (PT). I want to make a summary sheet that holds all these PT's, but when they expand the 'not allowed to overlap issue' causes me updating problems - ...
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Have Pivot Chart show only some columns in pivot table

I have a data table. In the table I have some dollar amounts. I also have formulas that use lookups to group these dollar amounts into groups in the data itself. I then have a pivot table where ...
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Adding a cumulative sum column to a pivot table

I have a pivot table where I am representing a series of data across a number of categories as follows: Sum of amount Area Status Priority Project Department 1 ...
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Update table starting from today's date in Excel

I have an excel worksheet similar to the following - Col A - Clients name, Col B - Col D - Cient's info such as address, Phone no etc and Col E - Date of next meeting. I want to create a table ...
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Pivot tables: How can I total the subtotal?

My SUBTOTAL row shows Person A needs £115, Person D £234 and Person G £789, but how do I SUM those totals and get it to show the total on the same ROW? The Rows are subscription names. The Value ...
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How to combine multiple rows of data of a single customer in a cell as comma separated values?

I have a PIVOT table report like the one below: Customer Name Category Date Met ----------------------------------- Customer 1 Core 9 10 Customer 2 ...
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Excel pivot table: How to hide zero values

I've got two tables and two pivot tables for each of them respectively. In the first table, the duration of each task is calculated on a column called "duration", but in the second one, there is no ...
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Excel: How to Group Dates Per Week in Line Graph

I have data that looks like this: Actual End Date ----CP 2016-04-22------------4 2016-04-26------------3 2016-04-26------------9 2016-04-22------------7 2016-04-26------------6 2016-04-26-------...
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In an excel pivot table, how can I only select rows that has a particular value in it?

Here's the pivot table I have : Mat Cust A B C D E F G H I J 1 P 0% 39% 18% 19% 0% 0% 0% 24% 0% 0% 2 Q 0% 52% 21% 19% 0% 0% 0% 7% 0% 0% 3 ...
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Pivot table with multiple, non hierarchical, columns

Let's say my source data looks like this: Brand Model Color Region Sales --------------------------------------- Ford Focus Black N/A 23 Ford Focus White N/A 2 ...
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How to preserve sort order in Excel Pivot-table?

I have a worksheet with data that is sorted in certain order (data is coming from external source, so there are four "ORDER BY" columns that create the desired sort order but are hidden on worksheet). ...
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Pivot table on filtered data

Is there a way to run a pivot table on an Excel sheet that already has columns filtered? Thus far, I've had to manually copy and paste the sheet into another sheet and then run a filter on that. Is ...
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How to rotate text in axis category labels of Pivot Chart in Excel 2007?

I'm using a pivot chart in Excel to display data. My problem is: I can not influence the orientation of the text in the "axis" (don't know how to call it correctly, I'm sorry). As an example: In the ...
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Excel 2007 pivot table where columns are custom values not directly in table (sort of)

I have an Excel spreadsheet that has some survey results.There are 3 questions which can be answered on a scale of 1-5, i.e. 5 strongly agree - 1 strongly disagree. The columns are Gender and the ...
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How can I use Excel to monitor my payable?

Here's what I wanted to happen, I have five columns Supplier Amount Payment Supplier1 Supplier2 When I have a receipt of my payable, I'll encode the name of supplier and it's amount. When ...
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Month by Month Pivot Table

I have a list of dates and data that go back a year. In Excel, I made a pivot table that shows all these dates. In the columns label under data filters I see a lot of weekly, monthly, yearly ...
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Filtering values on Excel Pivot Chart

I'm importing data into Excel Pivot Chart from SQL Server. I'm trying to filter out Values (decimal type on SQL) below a certain threshold. For this, I click PivotChart filter and see that filter may ...
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Filter a pivot table based on the values in specific columns

I have a pivot table where there are multiple column labels: group subgroup subsubgroup status The last label, status, has only two possible values, ACTIVE and DORMANT. I need to show only those ...
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PivotTable -- how to sum the result of a countif formula by group?

Current Setup A table (Table1) that has the following fields: Organization Name Person Name Several fields that users can put an "X" into (each represents a "module" that users would need access to) ...
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How can I add a calculated field to a pivot table that shows the difference between two series of data?

My underlying pivot table has the following columns - ProjectName, Type, Year, Budget. The data shows information for 2009 and 2010 for the same ProjectName and Type. I can pivot this to get a table ...
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Combining more than 10 tables data in to one table

In Excel 2003 I was able to combine more than 10 tables' data in one pivot table through "Multiple Consolidation Range". I cannot find the option in Excel 2007. Any ideas?
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Pivot table with two headers in MS Excel

I'd soo appreciate if someone could help. My initial table looks like this: Brand Period_1 Period_1 Period_2 Period_2 ------------------------------------------------------ ...
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Can an Excel 2007 Pivot Table merge data from different tables like a database?

I want to analyze data with a pivot table in Excel 2007. I tried to construct an easy example to explain my question below: I have a table (Table2) with data sorted by Person. I want to analyze ...
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Power Pivot - Average time per item

I'm trying to calculate on average, how long it takes to make each item. Here is the data table: Date Item Quantity Operator 01/01/2014 Item1 3 John 01/01/2014 Item2 5 ...
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How to remove one column of a calculated item in Pivot?

I have two columns. One with data from this year and the other with data from previous year. I now have added a calculated item in Pivot to display the % delta of these two years. Now when doing this ...
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Referenced values in a pivot table

I have a workbook that is being used by management to review data. One sheet has a pivot table with some quite specific information. The pivot table has multiple fields being pivoted in the rows. ...
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Make Excel 2007 pivot tables default to Classic View

When I launch a new pivot table in Excel 2007 (.xlsx file format) the defaults appear to be: New view (not Classic view) Autofit column widths on update = on Subtotals = on (top of group) I end up ...
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Insert rows into a protected data table

I have a protected sheet that I've created that has tables which has some columns that I would like protected. However, I need the end user to retain the ability to insert rows into the table. How do ...
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Excel2007 Pivot Table: Get Percentage with respect to number of different values in a field

I have a pivot table based on the answers of N persons to M different questions. Simple Example (in reality their might be more categories for answering than "yes" and "no" and there might also be ...
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Combine PivotTable with prices to calculate billings by person

I have the following: date, name, item, unit, quantity, deliverer, job in a pivot table using name and job in the row field; item in the column field and quantity as the value field. My item's ...
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MSFT Excel pivot table links to external data

Question1: What is the best online forum to ask MSFT Excel questions of the following variety? Question2: How can I link an excel pivot-table to a potentially changing source table without having to ...
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Excel pivot table: grand total of hours

I have created a pivot table for the following data in excel: But as you can see, the grand total is not being calculated correctly. What should I do to fix it? My second question is, how could I ...
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Excel Pivot table: Calculated field based on only the first row of a group

I've got the following data and pivot table: The Total column in the pivot table is the sum of the following calculated field: =start-TIME(7, 30, 0) I know that this calculation is wrong for what I ...
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Excel 2007: The empty look of a pivot table

How is it that in Excel 2007, an empty pivot table sometimes looks like this: and sometimes it looks like this: So what's the difference? How can I make it always look like the first one?
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Counting "0" Stock Values Generated by Pivot Table

I have an inventory ledger. It looks like this: Tran Type Txn Date Item Quantity Opening Balance 6/30/12 Item1 4 Opening Balance 6/30/12 Item2 7 Shipping ...
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Excel Pivot Table - Change default font

Is it possible to change the default font for a Pivot Table? We have a report automation module in our application that populates an Excel spreadsheet with a result set from an Oracle SQL query. ...
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Pivot Tables: how can I stop my columns from disappearing if they are empty?

I've ticked 'preserve cell formatting on update', but if one of the columns doesn't have an entry then it disappears. Is there any way I can keep it from disappearing even if it's blank? I suspect not ...
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Grouping dates by week in a Pivot Table

I am trying to create a Pivot table to report on data that comes from an Access Query. Basically the data that comes back is in the following format: TradeDate StoreID DeptCode ReasonCode ...
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Pivot tables stopped working after upgrade to Office 2007

An excel document with several pivot and lookup tables that previously worked under Office XP and 2003 has stopped working after upgrading to office 2007 (and linked stuff doesn't update any more ...
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Combine two or more tables into a third separate table

I have an excel workbook that has three pivot tables in it. What I am wanting to do is create a fourth table that combines the data from all three of the other tables. Essentially I want to ...
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Auto refresh pivot table on internal data change

I've a worksheet that has some data (sheet1) and another worksheet that has a pivot table(sheet2). How do I make sure that when I update the data in sheet1 the sheet2 pivot table is updated? a. How ...
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Excel 2007: Move the connection of an existing pivot table from a data connection to an Excel table

I've created a workbook that has a pivot table in it that has the data sourced from an external connection. Now I'm trying to expand the functionality of it, and want to switch it to an Excel table, ...

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