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Grouping in Pivot Table
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Any suggestions on how to group data on the axes for a pivot table. I have a pivot chart where I want to show the activity for my grocery shopping by the month. I select the sum amount of each product as the main field, on the y axis is the amount in currency, and the x axis is the date and the x axis data series is the product. I want to group the date so that it would show by the month spending but when I select group I get a error message that cannot group this selection Please advise. -- Best Regards, EM |
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There may be blank cells in the date column in the source data, and that
is causing the error. There's a bit more information he http://www.contextures.com/xlPivot07.html E Moorhead wrote: Hi, Any suggestions on how to group data on the axes for a pivot table. I have a pivot chart where I want to show the activity for my grocery shopping by the month. I select the sum amount of each product as the main field, on the y axis is the amount in currency, and the x axis is the date and the x axis data series is the product. I want to group the date so that it would show by the month spending but when I select group I get a error message that cannot group this selection Please advise. -- Debra Dalgleish Contextures http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html |
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Thanks for your response.
I removed the blank data and followed your website instructions and that didn't work. I get the error message that this selection cannot be grouped. Best Regards, EM "Debra Dalgleish" wrote: There may be blank cells in the date column in the source data, and that is causing the error. There's a bit more information he http://www.contextures.com/xlPivot07.html E Moorhead wrote: Hi, Any suggestions on how to group data on the axes for a pivot table. I have a pivot chart where I want to show the activity for my grocery shopping by the month. I select the sum amount of each product as the main field, on the y axis is the amount in currency, and the x axis is the date and the x axis data series is the product. I want to group the date so that it would show by the month spending but when I select group I get a error message that cannot group this selection Please advise. -- Debra Dalgleish Contextures http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html |
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Hi
Make sure that Date is in a Row area before you try to Group. If Date happened to be in a Page area, you would also get that message. Also, in addition to Debra saying ensure you have no blanks, do ensure that all dates in the range are valid Excel dates, and not Text representations of Date. -- Regards Roger Govier "E Moorhead" wrote in message ... Thanks for your response. I removed the blank data and followed your website instructions and that didn't work. I get the error message that this selection cannot be grouped. Best Regards, EM "Debra Dalgleish" wrote: There may be blank cells in the date column in the source data, and that is causing the error. There's a bit more information he http://www.contextures.com/xlPivot07.html E Moorhead wrote: Hi, Any suggestions on how to group data on the axes for a pivot table. I have a pivot chart where I want to show the activity for my grocery shopping by the month. I select the sum amount of each product as the main field, on the y axis is the amount in currency, and the x axis is the date and the x axis data series is the product. I want to group the date so that it would show by the month spending but when I select group I get a error message that cannot group this selection Please advise. -- Debra Dalgleish Contextures http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html |
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