Following a thread from back in 06, I found Debra Dalgliesh's pointers on
cretaing a pivot table from multiple data ranges. MAybe I am brain dead at
this point on Friday afternoon, but I can't seem to stumble onto teh proper
way to generate a MS Query. I start the pivot atble wizard and get to the
datasource/Queries/OLAP cubes. Opening the Queries tab does not give me any
option to create query text, what am I missing?3

Using Excel 2002 on WIN2002

Thanks for your support

hi
create the query(s) first(before the pivot table)
on the menu bar...
dataimport external datanew database query...
follow the wizard.

regards
FSt1

"JR Hester" wrote:

Following a thread from back in 06, I found Debra Dalgliesh's pointers on
cretaing a pivot table from multiple data ranges. MAybe I am brain dead at
this point on Friday afternoon, but I can't seem to stumble onto teh proper
way to generate a MS Query. I start the pivot atble wizard and get to the
datasource/Queries/OLAP cubes. Opening the Queries tab does not give me any
option to create query text, what am I missing?3

Using Excel 2002 on WIN2002

Thanks for your support

If you want to use MS Query to consolidate Excel ranges from your
multiple wkbks/wkshts:

This example uses 5 named ranges in 5 different workbooks.
(Each range contain 4 columns: Dept, PartNum, Desc, Price)

Assumptions:
The data in each wkbk is structured like a table:
---Col headings (Dept, PartNum, Desc, Price)
---Columns are in the same order.

The data in each wkbk must be in named ranges.
---I used rng1111Data for dept 1111's data, rng2222Data for dept 2222, etc
---You may use the same range name in different wkbks.

(Note: MS Query may display warnings about it's ability to show the query
....ignore them and proceed.)

Starting with an empty worksheet:
1)Select the cell where you want the consolidated data to start

2)<Data<Import External Data<New Database Query
• Databases: Excel Files

Browse to ONE of the files, pick the data range to import.
---Accept defaults until the next step.

At The last screen select the View data/Edit the Query option.

Click the [SQL] button

Replace the displayed SQL code with an adapted version of this:

SELECT * FROM `C:\Dept1111`.rng1111Data
UNION ALL
SELECT * FROM `C:\Dept2222`.rng2222Data
UNION ALL
SELECT * FROM `C:\Dept3333`.rng3333Data
UNION ALL
SELECT * FROM `C:\Dept5555`.rng4444Data
UNION ALL
SELECT * FROM `C:\Dept5555`.rng5555Data

(Note: the apostrophes in the SQL code ( ` )are located on the same key as
the tilde (~) )
Return the data to Excel.

Once that is done....to get the latest data just click in the data range
then DataRefresh Data.
(You can edit the query at any time to add/remove data sources and/or
fields.)


Is that something you can work with?
Post back if you have more questions.
--------------------------

Regards,

Ron
Microsoft MVP (Excel)
(XL2003, Win XP)



"JR Hester" wrote in message
...
Following a thread from back in 06, I found Debra Dalgliesh's pointers on
cretaing a pivot table from multiple data ranges. MAybe I am brain dead at
this point on Friday afternoon, but I can't seem to stumble onto teh
proper
way to generate a MS Query. I start the pivot atble wizard and get to the
datasource/Queries/OLAP cubes. Opening the Queries tab does not give me
any
option to create query text, what am I missing?3

Using Excel 2002 on WIN2002

Thanks for your support