I have an Excel spreadsheet which is split down the middle and mirrored on the other side so I do comparisons. I have the same slicers on both sides but when I change one slicer the other changes too. Is there a way to make the slicers independent from each other? When you change the Report Connections on one slicer this is also copied on the other one. I have two pivot tables which are showing the same data but I just want to slice them differently.
I have now duplicated my raw data as a workaround but this seems unnecessary to do.
I suspect what has happened is that at some stage you connected both Slicers to both Pivots. When this happens, Excel then forever treats both Slicers as just one, and you can't separate them again so that they point at different Pivots. I blogged about this some time back at the following link:
http://dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2014/08/05/slicers-and-slicercaches/
If this is the case, all you need to do is delete one of the Slicers, and create a new one on the other PivotTable.
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I have an issue where I have a power pivot data model with multiple slicers connecting to multiple connected queries. I don't think the actual model is of significance for my problem though.
I use the results of the various pivot tables along with some "getpivotdata" formulas to create som non-pivot tables and charts, which are the ones that the user is to focus on visually. The slicers are situated around and near these focus points.
However, almost always (with a few exceptions I can't fully explain) selecting a value in one of the slicers jumps to one of the pivot tables, usually the one I first connected that slicer to.
I have read a forum about one workaround, cutting and pasting the slicer to a different sheet then cutting and pasting back. This solves the issue for 3-4 selections, but then it reverts back.
Apart from that, all google has helped me do is find ways for the slicer itself not to resize (not my issue).
Does anyone have a valid workaround or fix for this? Of my ides are
have a hidden pivot table somewhere close to focus point that is each slicer's initial table
have the slicer initial table be an olap
some setting I dont know about
I'm trying to create an excel workbook where updates to a master spreadsheet will be automatically reflected onto worksheets within the same workbook which derive from filtered data from the master spreadsheet.
I tried resolving this issue by creating links between rows from the master spreadsheet to the derivative worksheets. Since they are tables, however, they will constantly be filtered which I have discovered breaks the links. Since the links were row-dependent, I cannot think of a way to be able to link all of them without constant breaks. Is there a way around this issue despite the fact that there are many variables at play?
Consider using PivotTables.
Drag all relevant fields to the row area (turn off all (sub-)totals) and the field you wish to filter for as the page filter.
Select the Options dropdown on the Pivot table Analyze contextual ribbon tab and choose "Show report filter pages".
I thought there would be a simple way of doing this, but unfortunately I have not come across one. My company has an Excel workbook with 12 sheets (1 for each month), into which I enter sales data as accounts are written. I reformatted each month's data into tables, thinking that this would provide an easy reference to gather the data into a pivot table that joins all the months and would be updated as I enter data; however, a pivot table based on multiple sets of data allows highly limited manipulation.
So what I want to do is create a new table that is automatically populated as I enter data in any of the 12 current tables, to combine them into a master listing. I have tried doing a query, but when I try to set up the data sources, it doesn't recognize my tables. I tried Power Query, but I couldn't get it to update the data as I updated the source. Consolidate also was not a useful feature, as it required all the data to be somehow calculated, and my columns need to simply be copied over, not summed or averaged.
As you can probably tell from my explanations and terminology, I'm no Excel expert. I don't know what VBA even is, let alone know how to use it, but I've seen it mentioned a lot, so I figure at some point in my life I should learn it.
Is there a formula or some other Excel 2010 feature that can automatically copy all of this data onto one running list, and keep it updating as I enter data in the source tables? It would have to run automatically.
I believe your end goal is to have a pivot table which consolidates data from each of the individual 12 sheets/tables and not really to have the intermediate "single running list which is an aggregation of all the 12 sheets".
If so, I suggest to create an Excel Pivot table directly based upon the 'Multiple consolidation ranges'.
To start, create a new spreadsheet and select a cell (say A3) and use the click sequence Alt+D+P, this will bring up the PivotTable and PivotChart Wizard, and proceed further using the third option - 'Mulitple consolidation ranges'.
I will have to refer you to the below site for a detailed step by step instructions on the above: http://www.contextures.com/xlPivot08.html
Please be aware that the Difficulty level for this solution is Medium, suggest you to bookmark the solution from maintainability reasons, in case you choose to implement it.
I have 2 PivotTables that were created from PowerPivot connections. I would like the second PivotTable to change based on a selection the user makes on the first PivotTable. I have some VBA background, so you don't need to write the whole code but point me to the right functions/structure.
If you use slicers, you can simply link both tables to the same set of slicers. You can even have multiple copies of each slicer.
It's the same in all versions of Excel since 2010. Here's a link.
Edit: Adding information from my comment below here.
You can use this technique even when you're explicitly using a filter on the pivot table, whether by adding a field to the Filters section, or by putting that field on the row/column labels and then limiting the selection based on that row/column header drop down. You can mix and match these as well, with Pivot1 having the field in question in the Filters section, and Pivot2 having the field in the Rows section.
Just create your two pivot tables as normal, and then connect both to the same slicer. This slicer can be hidden on another sheet that is not displayed to the end users. This solution is much more expedient than the VBA solutions I've seen.
I have a series of table in Excel worksheets, all of them holds same data types, one table for one item, and how some values changed over time in each table column.
I want to create a excel graph/chart for each of this table, with same formatting, only the data should be different.
When I copy each from single graph to create many, the table link doesn't change and I have to do that manually, which is difficult because there are number of tables.
Is there any better solution? Thank you
The dirtiest solution is to simply use VBA to automate these changes.
I finally copied and pasted the same graphs for each table, undo the old links and linked each table separately. I was looking for a easier way than this because even this is difficult with number of tables increasing. Thank you.