You can do all the items in each field at the same time:

Check that 'Enable Selection' is turned on (on the PivotTable toolbar,
choose PivotTableSelect -- 'Enable Selection' should be highlighted)

In the column area, point to the top of a field button
When the pointer changes to a black arrow, click to select the field
On the PivotTable toolbar, click the 'Hide Detail' button

Repeat these steps for the remaining fields.

Spencer Hutton wrote:
i have a data table in a sheet with thousands of records. there are about 15
different fields. i created a pivot table to summarize about 5 of the
fields. when i double click the first field to "expand" it and show detail,
i notice that all of the sub fields have all of their detial shown. is there
a way to hide detail for every field in the entire table so that i don't have
to drill down to the smallest detail for every category, and hide detail for
each item. TIA.


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