Mike..

You always need 1 visible item... so do the TRUE before the FALSE.

You're working with a collection object where the KEY is in fact the
string representation of a number...

If you're working in an international environment,you cannot assume the
user is using the the "." as the decimal separator.

Try following to be safe:

With ActiveSheet.PivotTables("Rupee").PivotFields("Acti vitity No")
.PivotItems(CStr(14.1)).Visible = True
.PivotItems(CStr(14)).Visible = False
End With


HTH,

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"Mike Barron" wrote:

I have been trying to automate a pivot table to produce 2
standard reports from a database in a separate
spreadsheet. There are three field items which differ
between the reports. I have recorded a macro to hide the
fields and another to show them. Looking at the code
produced by these it appears simple to set the VISIBLE
property for the items to either FALSEor TRUE to show or
hide these items but although the code for hiding the
items works the macro gives an error when trying to set
the VISIBLE property to TRUE. The error is:

Run-time error 1004
Unable to setthe Visible property of the PivotItem class

An extract of the affected code is below:

With ActiveSheet.PivotTables("Rupee").PivotFields
("Activity No")
.PivotItems("14").Visible = False
.PivotItems("14.1").Visible = True
End With

Only the second one (14.1) gives the error.
Has anyone else had a similar problem and is there a
solution?