How do I preserve data formatting in a pivot chart?
After establishing all desired fonts, text alignments, and data series
colors/patterns within a pivot chart, I cannot preserve the settings. As I change a selection in a page field button on the chart, the data series revert back to default color settings. Any autoformat options I can toggle on/off? |
This is a known problem with pivot charts. There's some information in
the following MSKB article, which suggests recording a macro as you apply the formatting: Changing a PivotChart removes series formatting in Excel http://support.microsoft.com/?id=215904 dblack wrote: After establishing all desired fonts, text alignments, and data series colors/patterns within a pivot chart, I cannot preserve the settings. As I change a selection in a page field button on the chart, the data series revert back to default color settings. Any autoformat options I can toggle on/off? -- Debra Dalgleish Excel FAQ, Tips & Book List http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html |
In a two minute experiment, I applied AutoFormatting to the pivot table.
I dont' really care for any of the built in formats, but I used the blank format. This seems to retain the formatting. Anyone know how to customize these built in formats? I suspect it's not possible. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com/ _______ Debra Dalgleish wrote: This is a known problem with pivot charts. There's some information in the following MSKB article, which suggests recording a macro as you apply the formatting: Changing a PivotChart removes series formatting in Excel http://support.microsoft.com/?id=215904 dblack wrote: After establishing all desired fonts, text alignments, and data series colors/patterns within a pivot chart, I cannot preserve the settings. As I change a selection in a page field button on the chart, the data series revert back to default color settings. Any autoformat options I can toggle on/off? |
How do I preserve data formatting in a pivot chart?
Debra,
I'm experiencing the same issues with preserving formats in pivot tables. I've never been a big fan of recording macros. Is ther a way to use visual basic code to preserve the formats. Perhaps as the pivot table was refreshed you could reapply formats? I'm not trying to do anything funky with my formats, biggest pet peeve being that the column witdth always changes. Eric "Debra Dalgleish" wrote: This is a known problem with pivot charts. There's some information in the following MSKB article, which suggests recording a macro as you apply the formatting: Changing a PivotChart removes series formatting in Excel http://support.microsoft.com/?id=215904 dblack wrote: After establishing all desired fonts, text alignments, and data series colors/patterns within a pivot chart, I cannot preserve the settings. As I change a selection in a page field button on the chart, the data series revert back to default color settings. Any autoformat options I can toggle on/off? -- Debra Dalgleish Excel FAQ, Tips & Book List http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html |
How do I preserve data formatting in a pivot chart?
Eric,
For a pivot table, you can turn off AutoFormat, and it should prevent changes to the column widths -- Right-click a cell in the pivot table Choose Table Options Remove the checkmark from AutoFormat table. Ensure that there's a checkmark in Preserve formatting. Click OK Excel GuRu wrote: Debra, I'm experiencing the same issues with preserving formats in pivot tables. I've never been a big fan of recording macros. Is ther a way to use visual basic code to preserve the formats. Perhaps as the pivot table was refreshed you could reapply formats? I'm not trying to do anything funky with my formats, biggest pet peeve being that the column witdth always changes. Eric "Debra Dalgleish" wrote: This is a known problem with pivot charts. There's some information in the following MSKB article, which suggests recording a macro as you apply the formatting: Changing a PivotChart removes series formatting in Excel http://support.microsoft.com/?id=215904 dblack wrote: After establishing all desired fonts, text alignments, and data series colors/patterns within a pivot chart, I cannot preserve the settings. As I change a selection in a page field button on the chart, the data series revert back to default color settings. Any autoformat options I can toggle on/off? -- Debra Dalgleish Excel FAQ, Tips & Book List http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html -- Debra Dalgleish Excel FAQ, Tips & Book List http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html |
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