When you are setting the Grouping.....

Hold down the [Ctrl] key while you select Months AND Years.

The pivot table will then group Months by Years.

Does that help?
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Regards,
Ron

XL2003, WinXP


" wrote:

Ron:

Thanks for your help! However, I do not want the months to be combined
if they belong to different years. How to prevent this?

Jorge