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Displaying Text in Pivot Table
Hello all,
Well I have a question which I believe can be answered in two ways. Currently I have a database in excel which has been made into a pivot table. It is just a simple catalog of some books. The row fields are organized as category, field, sub field and then title. The data items are a brief summary, catalog number, and where the book is currently located (in the office or someone else has it). My problem is all of the items in the data field are currently being displayed as numbers, which are all 1s since it gets that specific with the title included as a row field. I am wondering if there is anyway to display these 1s as the actual text that the value is on the original worksheet where all this information has been input. In other words, the brief summary actually being displayed on screen. Now this is a solution but I would prefer the table to be a bit more interactive so it does not become overwhelming with all the summaries on screen, in other words being able to click on the summary and have it come up. Well this is possible by double clicking, that brings you to a new sheet with all of the information on that entry but there is no way to easily get back to the pivot table. Is there anyway to include some kind of button directly on the spreadsheet to link you back? I was thinking comments would be a good idea since they become hidden, and I found a macro that would be a good idea which I found on this site: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/ccomment.htm and is described as Macro to populate comments in a range with text values of another range (#addcomments) Macro posted by Dave Ramage to obtain cell comment values for a single range from the text values of another matching single range (based on cell count of 1st range). Modified to use TEXT value which is the displayed value instead of value. But that does not work since the ranges are not the same and stuff will be added to this spreadsheet as time goes on. Well any help would be appreciated. I am kind of new to Excel and I figure these would be pretty simple questions to answer for someone who is familiar with the program. Thanks if you were able to read down here! I appreciate your time. |
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