You can't change the default settings for the data fields. If a field
contains blank cells, or cells with text, it will default to COUNT.
Otherwise, it will SUM.

There's a feature that changes all the data fields to SUM, in my pivot
table add-in, that you can download he

http://www.contextures.com/xlPivotAddIn.html


WillD wrote:
How can I set a default to sum, rather than count and then having to alter
each column?




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