Comments for Excel Pivot Tables

Comment on Pivot Table Tricks by Debra Dalgleish

Debra Dalgleish — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:26:48 +0000

Hi Yogesh,
Unfortunately this is one of the results of using Calculated Items and there’s no way to turn it off. If you’re using Excel 2007, you can filter the Row fields so they don’t show amounts equal to zero. That would hide all the extra items that appear after you create a calculated field.

If you’re using an earlier version of Excel, try a ‘Difference From’ custom calculation, instead of a calculated item.

Comment on Pivot Table Tricks by Yogesh Gupta

Yogesh Gupta — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:02:02 +0000

Hello Debra

I am using Calculated Item (Not a Calculated Field) in a Pivot table
to calculate variance in Budget and Actual figures. Though this is
working fine and I am getting the variance calculation properly.
However the page filter is not showing proper results.

Once I am using page fileter to see data for a particular geography,
it keep on showing the claculated items for data which is not related
to geography as per page filter.

My file is available at this link , I am not sure of the
mistake I am making in this Pivot Table

In this file Pivot table is filtered on Geography “East” , however the
report is still showing the calculated item “Variance” for states that
does not belong to geography “East”

Regards//Yogesh Gupta

Comment on Re-create Pivot Table Source Data Table by Andy

Andy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:11:21 +0000

No problem! Keep up the great posts!

Best,
Andy
MSFT Office Outreach Team

Comment on Re-create Pivot Table Source Data Table by Debra Dalgleish

Debra Dalgleish — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:16:12 +0000

Thanks Andy, I joined the Excel group in Facebook a few weeks ago. I appreciate your posting the address so other people can find it.

Comment on Re-create Pivot Table Source Data Table by Andy

Andy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:41:25 +0000

Nice stuff. These are some great tips on working with pivot tables in Excel. You should think about joining the Excel conversation on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/office

Cheers,
Andy
MSFT Office Outreach Team

Comment on Create a Combination Pivot Chart by Kelly Ann

Kelly Ann — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:29:00 +0000

How do you create two pivot tables on spreadsheet/worksheet tab. I had bought a couple of books but it never talks about being able two pivot tables on one worksheet tab. Thanks Kelly

Comment on Refreshing All Pivot Tables in a Workbook by David Wilkans

David Wilkans — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:04:35 +0000

I am unable to add any buttons to my pivot table toolbar at all. That is whether I have selected a cell within a pivot table or not. I even tried using the Customize feature and attempted to drag the “Generate GetPivotData” button from the Data category within the Commands tab with no sucess. I can add this button to my Standard or Formatting toolbars. I’m just stumped why the Pivot table seems locked with the buttons it currently has.

Comment on Refreshing All Pivot Tables in a Workbook by Debra Dalgleish

Debra Dalgleish — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:54:21 +0000

David, if you select a cell in a pivot table first, are you able to add buttons to the PivotTable toolbar?

Comment on Refreshing All Pivot Tables in a Workbook by David Wilkans

David Wilkans — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:29:22 +0000

I am using Excel 2003 and for some reason I am unable to add buttons to my Pivot Table toolbar. I click the “Add or Remove buttons” but the “Pivot Table” option is greyed out and not availalbe. Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong?

Comment on Locate the Source Data For a Pivot Table by Edward

Edward — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:26:45 +0000

Hi!
Thanks for your comment.
On Excel 2007 it diesn’t work.
They have really muffed up pivot tables.
The chart always remains linked to the original pivot table.

The latest one is that line charts colour series differently to the legend…brilliant.
Blank cells appear as zero values on the line chart instead of being left blank…genius.