Basically, the need is to build multi-dimensional tables of text. This would
be more ideal in Word, but Excel PivotTables comes so close...if only it
allowed text data.

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You can make a pivot table of text data, as long as all you want is counts.
What are you trying to do?

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"Geek4Life" wrote in message
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Basically, the need is to build multi-dimensional tables of text. This
would
be more ideal in Word, but Excel PivotTables comes so close...if only it
allowed text data.

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Jon,

I am trying to build a pivot table summarizing my text data. Basically, I have 7 different stages of my client lifecycle, and a list of each deal stage each client is at. So two columns of text data, that i would like to summarize in a pivot table instead of in columns. I have the pivot table built with "deal stage" as the columns, "client name" as the rows, and "deal stage" as the values, but the table only displays zero's or blank. What am I doing wrong? Any recommendations on how to display?
Thank you!
Joe

On Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 10:23:01 AM UTC-6, Jon Peltier wrote:
You can make a pivot table of text data, as long as all you want is counts.
What are you trying to do?

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"Geek4Life" wrote in message
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Basically, the need is to build multi-dimensional tables of text. This
would
be more ideal in Word, but Excel PivotTables comes so close...if only it
allowed text data.

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Perhaps this will be helpful...

http://www.contextures.com/pivottableindex.html

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I would also like to have this capability. Basically, I don't want to
aggregate values I just want to use the filtering and grouping capabilities
of pivot tables.

For small sets of data, you can almost get what you want using numeric coded
values for the text. Then use conditional formatting to display the text.
However, what you really need is a lookup function that converts a number
into a text string to be displayed.

"Geek4Life" wrote:

Basically, the need is to build multi-dimensional tables of text. This would
be more ideal in Word, but Excel PivotTables comes so close...if only it
allowed text data.

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