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Default How to pivot and display 'text' in the data section, no Counts!

Pivot tables are designed for aggregating data, not for creating heirarchy
reports of text items. In general what you want is a little out of the depth
of pivot tables.
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"Hays215" wrote:

When I create my pivot table and place the 'text' field in the Data section,
the Pivot defaults to the Count function and gives a count of hits. I want to
see each of the hits, separated by a column. I can do this easily in Brio,
but I want to keep it in Excel. Help!!...

 
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