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Luke M Luke M is offline
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Default pivot table chart

Not quite. Open the PivotTable toolbar, click on PivotTable, go down to
calculated field. This is where you would normally do something like:
=Qty*Price
(Qty & Price being field names)
In your case, simply type the constant formula.

However, if this doesn't work,y our idea should as well, to simply add a row
to your entire data set.
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"CMD" wrote:

Thanks, Luke.

I think what you are saying is add a column called "constant". do i then
have to enter the constant (=20.5) for every row in the pivot table?

Chris

"Luke M" wrote:

Add a calculated field to your PivotTable, using a constant for the formula
such as
=20.5
You can then add the field to your PivotChart.
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"CMD" wrote:

Hi
I have a pivot table that I am using to make a pivot table chart. here is
what i would like to do.

Lets say that i am analyzing blood glucose levels in patients. I have 100
patients who have had their glucose measured. I am using the pivot table to
look at average glucose level and I am using different page fields to look at
different cuts of the data...so I have in their gender, age group, race, etc.

here is where the question comes...i would like to make a chart but in
addition to glucose levels for the patients, i would like the chart to show a
separate bar graph showing the normal range for glucose. so this normal
range is a CONSTANT. Regardless of how i manipulate the page fields, i want
the same constant normal range always appears to the right of the data. This
allows for the user to get a visual of how each cut of data compares to the
constant normal range.

Hopefully that makes sense. Thanks in advance.

Chris