I'm trying to compare an old customer schedule with their new schedule
and highlight the changes with colour or by hiding a row. My pivot
table looks like this

Prod Sched wk1 wk2 wk3
A old 3 2 3
A new 3 4 3
B old 2 2 2
B new 2 2 2

So in the above example I'd like to colour the cells for wk2- Product A
in yellow, and hide the product B rows as there has been no change in
demand.

Can someone give me some advice about how to do this
Thanks for your help
Ross

How about an alternative???

Your raw data looks kind of like this:

Prod Sched wk# qty

I'd insert a new helper quantity:

Prod Sched wk# qty AdjQty

Under that adjqty, you'd have a formula like:

=if(c2="new",d2,-d2)

(negative numbers if the schedule was old)

Then create a pivottable that just shows the difference.

Prod Wk1 wk2
A 3 0
B -5 5
....

What do you think?

revm2 wrote:

I'm trying to compare an old customer schedule with their new schedule
and highlight the changes with colour or by hiding a row. My pivot
table looks like this

Prod Sched wk1 wk2 wk3
A old 3 2 3
A new 3 4 3
B old 2 2 2
B new 2 2 2

So in the above example I'd like to colour the cells for wk2- Product A
in yellow, and hide the product B rows as there has been no change in
demand.

Can someone give me some advice about how to do this
Thanks for your help
Ross

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Dave Peterson

Wow, never thought of that.

Thanks for the suggestion Dave, I've given it a go and it's helpful
(nice and quick) but not ideal as I need to display totals so we can
judge if we can physically make the quantity.

I'm currently trying to do what i want in VBA by cycling through every
row and comparing each weeks quantity. If they don't match I highlight
the cells in yellow. Not got it working yet but I still think there
must be a better way.

Thanks anyway,
r