You can make a pivot table of text data, as long as all you want is counts.
What are you trying to do?

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Peltier Technical Services, Inc.
http://PeltierTech.com/WordPress/
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"Geek4Life" wrote in message
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Basically, the need is to build multi-dimensional tables of text. This
would
be more ideal in Word, but Excel PivotTables comes so close...if only it
allowed text data.

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