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Pivot Table Not Working
I have been using the same Excel workbook for 10 years, across three Excel
versions, and 2 OSs. About three times a month, I create the same pivot table from a database (a named range) on a worksheet. I have a brand new Dell Vista laptop with Office 2007. I consider myself an expert Excel user. But when I create the very simple, two-column pivot table now, the resulting table misses more than half the records in the database. And the 100s of records it does miss are not necessarily consecutive records in the database. Has anyone else had this problem? Any ideas what the fix is? I guess I'm naive, but why would a simple transition to a newer version of Excel not work on something I haven't changed in 10 years? |
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Pivot Table Not Working
Are there any filters on the pivot table?
To remove all the filters: Select a cell in the pivot table On the Ribbon, click the Options tab In the Actions group, click Clear, then click Clear All Ed K wrote: I have been using the same Excel workbook for 10 years, across three Excel versions, and 2 OSs. About three times a month, I create the same pivot table from a database (a named range) on a worksheet. I have a brand new Dell Vista laptop with Office 2007. I consider myself an expert Excel user. But when I create the very simple, two-column pivot table now, the resulting table misses more than half the records in the database. And the 100s of records it does miss are not necessarily consecutive records in the database. Has anyone else had this problem? Any ideas what the fix is? I guess I'm naive, but why would a simple transition to a newer version of Excel not work on something I haven't changed in 10 years? -- Debra Dalgleish Contextures http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html |
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I solved the mystery. To test what I thought might work, I copied the entire
database into a new Excel file, named the range of data including the column headers, then ran the pivot table on the named range. It worked, with all of the data pivoted correctly. Of course, what to do with the other 10 tabs in the original workbook? Well, I just went back into my original Excel file, copied each of the 5 key data columns (i.e., fields) in the database, and then just pasted values into the same columns. All of these columns have data that are key entered, not formulas, so the pasting did not lose anything (only the time trying to figure out what to do). Sort of like rebooting, wouldn't you say? Thanks for advise. Ed "Debra Dalgleish" wrote: Are there any filters on the pivot table? To remove all the filters: Select a cell in the pivot table On the Ribbon, click the Options tab In the Actions group, click Clear, then click Clear All Ed K wrote: I have been using the same Excel workbook for 10 years, across three Excel versions, and 2 OSs. About three times a month, I create the same pivot table from a database (a named range) on a worksheet. I have a brand new Dell Vista laptop with Office 2007. I consider myself an expert Excel user. But when I create the very simple, two-column pivot table now, the resulting table misses more than half the records in the database. And the 100s of records it does miss are not necessarily consecutive records in the database. Has anyone else had this problem? Any ideas what the fix is? I guess I'm naive, but why would a simple transition to a newer version of Excel not work on something I haven't changed in 10 years? -- Debra Dalgleish Contextures http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html |
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