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Default Grouping a data field in a pivot table

You can group by Day and Month (by week is a bit trickier as it will only
allow you to group by every 7 days based on the date of the earliest date in
the field). If you group by a set number of days then you can not group by
month, year, etc... That being said you need to make sure that the date field
is dates and not text otherwise you will not be able to group. When you
select group you should get a dialog allowing you to group by Day, Month,
Quarter, Year (along with time). If you do not get that dialog then post back
with what you do get...
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Jim Thomlinson


"mercedes" wrote:

I am trying to group some dates, I would like to do day, week and month. I
right-clicked and went to Group and Show Details, and then to group but it
only groups them bu day. It does not even give me the option of grouping by
anything else. I went to the help and it says that when it is a date field
it should give you the option of how to group it by. Why is it not doing it
for me?? Help!!!