There are many built-in PivotTable styles in Excel 2007, but you might not see one that has the exact formatting you need. For example, you might like the heading colors in the Pivot Style Medium 9, but you’d like a different color in the subtotal row. Instead of using one of the built-in PivotTable styles, [...]

In a pivot table, you usually sort the data by the values in a column, such as the Grand Total column. By sorting, you can highlight the highest or lowest values, by moving them to the top of the pivot table. To sort a pivot table column: Right-click on a value cell, and click Sort. [...]

When you add a field to the Values area of an Excel Pivot Table, it automatically shows the Sum or Count for all the items in that field. Here we can see the total labor cost for each Service Type. If you add more than one field to the Row Labels or Column Labels area [...]

If you rearrange the fields in a pivot chart layout, the related pivot table changes too. Unfortunately, there’s no setting you can change if you want the pivot chart and pivot table to work independently. As a workaround, you can create a second pivot table, based on the first one, and arrange it as you’d [...]

If you format a column of dates in your pivot table source data, to show as year and month (yyyy-mm), they won’t automatically summarize by year and month in the pivot table. Format the Source Data For example, in the source data shown below, there are several orders for January 2010, and three different dates [...]

With Excel Pivot Table filters, you can limit the results to a specific part of your data. For example, you can view only the sales from the previous month, or see the products with more than $500 in sales. If you’re interested in analyzing the best or worst results in your data, use the Top [...]

If you have an Excel workbook that contains several pivot tables and multiple Excel Tables, you might want to identify which pivot cache each pivot table uses. To figure out which pivot cache a pivot table uses, you can use a macro to check the pivot table’s CacheIndex property and show the index number in [...]

Download now or watch on posterous ZoomSelection.avi (987 KB) Did you know that you can quickly zoom in to focus on the selected cells in Excel 2007? This very short video shows you how. Posted via email from contextures’s posterous

This short video shows you a quick technique for naming a range of cells in Excel. Posted via email from contextures’s posterous