Posts Tagged ‘Pivot Tables’

Why is Excel so Negative about Hiding Subtotals

September 9th, 2009

Have you ever recorded a macro while hiding a Subtotal in a PivotTable? You basically get something like this:

ActiveSheet.PivotTables(“PivotTable1″).PivotFields(“Budget Status”).Subtotals = Array(False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False)

That’s right. There are twelve Falses here. What’s crazier than that, if you try to leave out any of Falses, the code bugs out.

So why all the annoying Falses?

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Forcing Number Formatting in a Pivot Table

July 20th, 2009

Every now and then, I have to deal with a situation where a normalized dataset makes it difficult to build an appropriate pivot table.

Here’s an example:

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Exploding a Dataset using a PivotTable

July 1st, 2009

If you’ve been following the blog, you’ll know that it’s Pivot Table week. That’s right. All in honor of the upcoming Independence Day holiday.

Here’s another dose of PivotTable awesomeness. (That’s right Kusleika, I said ‘dose’. You don’t own that word.)

 

Today I’ll show a trick I often use to explode a dataset into separate workbooks – using a pivot table.

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Adding Visualizations to your Pivot Tables

June 29th, 2009

It’s almost the 4th of July here in the US – probably everywhere else in the world too. But in the US, the 4th of July is Independence Day.

So in honor of the upcoming 4th of July weekend, I’ve declared this week to be Pivot Table week. I’m pretty sure our founding fathers used pivot tables.

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