Have you got the field sorted? I have Excel 2002 but I suspect its the same
in Excel 2000. Right-click on the field title in the pivot table and select
Field Settings Advanced Ascending

"FHowl" wrote in message om...
Hi All.

I have an excel grid of data that I report using a Pivottable. It has
apprx 4500 records. I do this report every month...so I've been using
the previous month as a model...then use the pivot-wizard to point to
the new month's data and refresh the data. This works except that one
of the fields on the pivottable is a Client Name field. The problem is
that when you click the drop-down on that field it is not completely
in alphabetical order. It goes A to Z for most of the names but then
after some Z names...it shows other names in Random order?

I've tried sorting before pivot-ing to no effect.

If I start from scratch with a new pivot...the data is sorted. But
That will cost me time every month rebuilding it.

Any idea how I can refresh so that the drop-down data is
re-sorted...maybe with VBA? I use Excel 2000. Any help would be
appreciated - thanks.

"Rob Rutherford" wrote in message ...
Have you got the field sorted? I have Excel 2002 but I suspect its the same
in Excel 2000. Right-click on the field title in the pivot table and select
Field Settings Advanced Ascending

"FHowl" wrote in message om...
Hi All.

I have an excel grid of data that I report using a Pivottable. It has
apprx 4500 records. I do this report every month...so I've been using
the previous month as a model...then use the pivot-wizard to point to
the new month's data and refresh the data. This works except that one
of the fields on the pivottable is a Client Name field. The problem is
that when you click the drop-down on that field it is not completely
in alphabetical order. It goes A to Z for most of the names but then
after some Z names...it shows other names in Random order?

I've tried sorting before pivot-ing to no effect.

If I start from scratch with a new pivot...the data is sorted. But
That will cost me time every month rebuilding it.

Any idea how I can refresh so that the drop-down data is
re-sorted...maybe with VBA? I use Excel 2000. Any help would be
appreciated - thanks.

That did it. I feel like a moron.
Rob thanks very miuch for your quick reply. You saved me some work.