It seems that Excel calculates all possible permutations or a calcuation.
For example:

Region Person Budget Actual Variance (calculated)
North John 10 5 -5
North Peter 10 6 -4
East Mary 15 16 1
East Sue 15 14 -1

In the Excel pivot table, there are entries for Mary & Sue in the North
(even though there is no such data). The calculations are blank, but the
worksheet quickly becomes confusing. Is there a way to filter out these
"nonsense" permutations?

You can manually hide the rows, but there's no built in way to supress them.

Craig wrote:
It seems that Excel calculates all possible permutations or a calcuation.
For example:

Region Person Budget Actual Variance (calculated)
North John 10 5 -5
North Peter 10 6 -4
East Mary 15 16 1
East Sue 15 14 -1

In the Excel pivot table, there are entries for Mary & Sue in the North
(even though there is no such data). The calculations are blank, but the
worksheet quickly becomes confusing. Is there a way to filter out these
"nonsense" permutations?


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