If you have a couple of years of daily data in Excel, you can use a pivot chart to quickly compare that data, month by month, year over year. This short video shows how to compare annual data in Excel pivot chart.
Category: Pivot Table
Errors in Pivot Table Totals
Pivot tables are a quick and easy way to summarize a table full of data, without fancy formulas. Occasionally though, things can go wrong. Today we’ll figure out why you might see errors in pivot table totals or subtotals, when all the item amounts look fine. Continue reading “Errors in Pivot Table Totals”
Excel Pivot Table Troubleshooting
If you have a big Excel file, with lots of pivot tables and their source data, I’ve written a macro that might help you. The macros creates a detailed list of all the pivot tables in the workbook, so it’s useful for documentation, and some types of troubleshooting.
Pivot Chart Title from Filter Selection
Instead of adding a static title to your Pivot Chart, use a worksheet formula to create a dynamic chart title. Then, when you make a selection in the Report Filter, the chart title will change too. The video below shows the step-by-step instructions.
Rename Pivot Table DrillDown Sheets
When you double-click a pivot table value cell, Excel adds a new sheet to your workbook, with the details for that summary value. To make it easy to find those sheets, and delete them later, use the latest version of my macros to rename Pivot Table DrillDown sheets.
Remove Sum of in Pivot Table Headings
When you’re building a pivot table, if you add fields to the Values area, Excel automatically adds “Sum of” or “Count of” to the start of the field name. You can manually remove that text, or use macros to quickly change the headings. There is one macro example here, and more on my Contextures website.
List All Pivot Table Styles Macro
When you create a pivot table, a default PivotTable Style is automatically applied. You can change to a different style, and you can even create custom pivot table styles. To help you keep track of the styles that you have, here’s a List All Pivot Table Styles macro.
Copy a Pivot Table Custom Style to Different Workbook
How can you copy a pivot table custom style to a different workbook? There isn’t a built-in way to do that, but there is a workaround solution. There are instructions that worked in Excel 2013, and earlier versions (way back to Excel 2007). Those stopped working, unfortunately, but there’s an easy way to do this in Excel 2016 too.
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Hockey Player Data Analysis in Excel
Congratulations to the USA Women’s Hockey team, who won the Olympic gold medal. They beat our Canadian team, in a hard-fought game that went into overtime, and ended with a shootout. The team rosters were available online, so I used those for a hockey player data analysis, in Excel pivot tables. Is there anything in the player data that shows why the USA team won?
Excel Budget Report with Value Selector
Instead of showing a budget’s forecast, actual and variance data all at once, click a button to view the values one at a time. That makes the report easier to read, and takes less space on the worksheet. See how this technique works in my Budget Reporter with value selector workbook.