I'm trying to add the grand total row from my pivot table to my slicer. My slicer currently controls A lot of my charts and I want to be able to see the subtotals/grand totals of my certain field in my pivot table, displayed onto my chart. I cannot add a calculated item to my pivot table as I keep getting an error involving my source table (Can't Be Changed). I'm open to VBA solutions as well if anybody has one.
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I have a pivot table gathering data from a sheet, using slicers i'm able to filter data.
What i wanted to do is get data from 2 slicers, like one slicer with March and another with June and show it side by side within the same pivot table or different, So I can compare data.
I'm using Excel, any ideas?
Let me know if there is anything else u might need to help
Before creating any slicers, copy your pivot table and place beside the original table. Then create your Slicer on Pivot 1, and repeat for Pivot 2. These will be exclusive slicers as long as you do it in this order.
Is there a way to make a bubble chart from a pivot table in excel? When I try do this I get a message that says that bubble charts and stock charts doesnt work with pivot tables.
Do you need the pivot table to stay dynamic? And if so, will the pivot table change in size?
If the answer to either of these is no, these work-arounds should work:
option 1 - You only need the values from the pivot table
Make a copy of the pivot table, but paste only the values.
Now you can make a bubble chart.
option 2 - The pivot table values may change, but the dimension would stay the same.
make a copy of the pivot table, but put in each cell a reference to the corresponding cell (e.g. =E15 ) in the original pivot table.
Now you can make a bubble chart.
edit:
option 3 - Everything needs to stay dynamic
Use a pivot chart instead of a pivot table. see here.
Its also possible to convert your existing table into a pivot chart.
see here.
edit 2: option 3 seems not to work for bubble charts after all. I leave this option here for completeness’ sake.
I have a pivot table from multiple tables. When I double-click my pivot table data, it produces a copy of the row(s) that data came from. Is there a way for me to make adjustments aka change the values of cells in these rows, and have it only adjust the pivot table?
What I'm mainly looking for is an easy way of viewing the data through the pivot table, and adjusting it without it necessarily affecting the source tables. Right now when I adjust a row produced by the pivot table, none of the values in the actual pivot table get updated.
What about producing a new PivotTable from the drilldown sheet that got produced when you double-clicked the old PivotTable?
That's about as close as you're going to get, I'm afraid.
The pivot table is a visualization tool only. It summarizes that data that you input into the pivot table, and gives you a visual output.
If you want to change that visual output, you have to copy the relevant part of the pivot table to another area (different cell or sheet, doesn't matter). Then, you can edit that table.
Is it possible to unlink a pivot chart axis selection from the pivot table rows? Whenever I remove one of the pivot chart axis fields to display the chart correctly, excel also removes the field from the pivot table rows selection which is not what I need.
The images below may help show what I mean - if I remove field "Division" from the pivot chart axis selection, the field is also removed from the pivot table rows selection. I have a sample spreadsheet which can do this - link is here.
Thanks for any suggestions.
A pivot chart is invariably linked to the underlying pivot table. Removing fields from the Rows field well will remove them in both the chart and the table. That's just how it works.
Edit after viewing sample file:
The sample file has just one pivot cache, but it has several pivot tables. The two pivot tables for the two pivot charts on the dashboard live on the "Pivots" worksheet and are not connected to the pivot table on the dashboard.
So, if you want to create a pivot chart and a pivot table with different fields, you need a separate pivot table for the chart. You may want to create the pivot chart first, on a helper sheet, then move the chart to the dashboard and leave the underlying pivot table on the helper sheet.
Then add another pivot table to the dashboard sheet and use columns that are independent from the pivot chart.
I have the following issue. I have large dataset with product codes, dates at which they are shipped and their tranport method.
I would like to create a pivot of the product code on the left and their transport method on the top. But as variable I would the pivot to only present a range of dates. These dates are presented in the form yyyyww. (example: from 201420 to 201505).
I have a column where each of the individual year and weeknumber as presented, so they could be looked up from there. This also allows it to be a variable.
How can I get this pivot to present this information between a date range?
In Excel 2010 and later you can insert a slicer for any field in the data source and click the values in the slicer that you want to include in the pivot table. Shift click to select contiguous slicer values, Ctrl-click to pick non-contiguous slicer items.
As an alternative to slicers, you can drag the desired filter columns into the filter pane.
The screenshot shows the column names in the filter pane and how the filters appear above the pivot table. It also shows slicers to the right of the pivot table. A pivot table in Excel 2010 and later can have both filters and slicers. Earlier versions can only have filters.
The following screenshot shows what happens when values have been clicked on the slicers. These selected slicer values are mirrored in the filter settings (and vice versa). So, a slicer is just a user-friendly way to select one or more filters for the pivot table.
Please note that you would normally only use one method: either slicer OR filters. Choose the one that you like most.