Excel PivotTable from Cube: How to get a flat table? - excel

I'm importing data from a SQL Cube and have several row labels I'd like to show. Is there a way to NOT have the hierarchical view? (aka no plus signs for the first row values, and instead show the second row label's value next to the first row labels, etc.) I'd like to see ALL data without it being hidden or aggregated together.

Figured it out...
It's under PivotTable Tools > Design > Report Layout > Show in Tabular Form

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Pivot Charts - how to choose columns to show on the graph

so far when I want to choose columns which I want to show in the graph, I have to click on the pivot table and then choose columns fom pivot fields. Is there a faster way to do that? I would like to add some nice looking list under the graph from which I could choose columns to show.
You don't need to use the PivotTable, you can add columns directly to the PivotChart using the same interface as for PivotTables. Right click on the PivotChart and select "Show Field List" as the bottom. The control pane will appear on the right.
Building a custom user interface below the PivotChart would require a significant amount of VBA and would not perform as well.

Skip empty lines for drawing a chart

I've got a table containing data and on the right are four columns aggregating a few of the lines resulting in new data. Having this the lines between aggregated data are empty and trying to chart that data results in gaps in the chart.
I want to chart only the aggregated data not the (empty) lines between. At the moment I've tried using #NA or NA() and properties in the select-data-dialog but nothing works. The only thing would be to deselect every empty line in the select-data-prop-window but there's of data and this would be too much work everytime new data comes.
A fairly simple approach is to use a PivotChart:
Select the data and Insert a PivotTable
Add Label and Data elements to the PivotTable
Summarize Data by Sum
Hide the Row Label that is blank or has #NV to exclude the rows without data
Select the PivotTable then go to the PivotTable Tools > Analyze tab
Click the PivotChart button then select chart type
A very simple but temporary solution, is to use an autofilter to hide the blank rows:
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Pivot Table shows blank value labels

I have a pivot table which ideally I would like to exclude any row labels that have empty values. The pivot table can be seen below:
As can be seen in the image, there is no values for the row label Type 2.
For some reason the option to display these items is checked and grayed out in the pivot table options under the display tab as can be seen here:
I found a number of resources online that said to check the "show items with no data" field under the Layout & print tab in field settings, but still to no avail.
Basically I want to have the above pivot table to display Type 1 and Type 3 values but not Type 2 as it has no values.
I am using Excel 2010.
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated!

Data Grouping hiding data from Chart?

I have a chart that works and presents the data as I expect.
When I use Data Grouping of the data and collapse that data region it seems it's no longer available for the chart. Is this correct / is there a way around this (other than creating a summary data set manually?)
This is true when the chart is on the same tab or not.
The default setting on charts is to not include data from hidden columns and rows in the chart. To change this do the following:
Right-click the chart and click Select Data...
Click the button Hidden and Empty Cells
Check the box Show data in hidden rows and columns

Word - Excel table caption

I have added a table from Excel to Word. The table is too large for one page and is divided into two pages. Now when I add a caption, this is only displayed at the top of page 1, but nothing on page 2. How can I edit it so I can put something like
"Page1"
Table1: Sales
(table)
*Page2*
**++Table1: Sales (continued)++**
(table continues)
Its a bit of a cludge, but you can put the caption in the first row of the table itself, and turn on "Repeat as header row at top of each page".
Merge all cells and turn off borders in the first row, caption then looks like its outside the table.
Easy way to get the caption into the table is to insert it normally, then cut and paste it into the table.
Use Headers inplace of caption. Use a different header for the first page and yet another one for the 2nd page. Use page numbers in the format "page x of y" in the fotter to make it more accesible.
You may also make the single table as two tables. If your single table is too large, to fit in one page vertically, word will put it in 2 or more pages. This however will not result in the repeating of the caption or even the column headers. This obtion is however available in Excel where you go to page setup and select the rows and columns to repeat at the top.
When u break you single table into two tables, one for each page you can customize the caption for each table seperately. You can also than repeat the column headers.

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