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How can I display actual "alpha" data in the values section of a pivot table.
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The short answer is you can't. Pivot tables are designed to aggreaget data in
a hierarchy. Text does not aggregate. You can place the text in the row or column headers and get counts so of those text values in the data area. -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Debster" wrote: How can I display actual "alpha" data in the values section of a pivot table. |
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Thank you so much for your quick response! I had searched the help and web
and this was my final attempt to find the answer that I was looking for - but alas.....apparently no can do! "Jim Thomlinson" wrote: The short answer is you can't. Pivot tables are designed to aggreaget data in a hierarchy. Text does not aggregate. You can place the text in the row or column headers and get counts so of those text values in the data area. -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Debster" wrote: How can I display actual "alpha" data in the values section of a pivot table. |
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