Sorry, no. Did you mean to use the calculated item in both examples or is
one a calculated field?

I understand that I could use one of the fields to increase/decrease values
by a percentage, but can I not therefore use it to display a fixed value
dependant on category? I notice that the formatting was lost on the original
post, so to confirm I am keeping the rows the same with the months displayed
and trying to bring the product groups into the columns and use and IF
statement in the calculated item/field to give me the budget, e.g.:

IF(product group = a , 4 , IF(product group = b , 4 , etc.))...

If I can get this working then I can chart actual against budget at a lower
level then the top level that I currently have working.

Thanks,

Nigel

"Gilles Desjardins" wrote:

A calculated item would be something like increase the sales of all dairy
products by 5%
A calculated item would be increase the butter by 5%, the yogurt by 6% and
the milk by 2%.
therefore you have to determine what is what in your database.

Does this make sense to you?

Gilles
"Nigel Drinkwater" wrote in
message ...
I have a pivot table set up reporting monthly margins based on detailed
sales
data, on the back of which I have a pivot chart. I have successfully
inserted a summary budget number (as a calculated field) into the pivot
table
and graph, and it looks fairly simple:

Month Margin Budget
Jan 5 8
Feb 6 8
Etc.

I want to break this down to a product group looking at just margin and
budget, e.g.

A B
Month Margin Budget Margin Budget
Jan 3 4 2 4
Feb 3 4 3 4
Etc.

But I can't get it to work - I know I will need to re-define the budget
numbers, but do I still need a calculated field or should I be using a
calculated item? Neither appears to be doing what I want.

Many thanks,

Nigel