Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
|
#1
![]()
Posted to microsoft.public.excel.programming
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
Date problem in Pivot Tables when using SQL as a Data Source.
I have a table of sales information in SQL that shows the week ending totals for our sales and the total sale price for that week. I am using Excel to create a pivot table to access this table information so that end users can automaticly look up the total weekly sales at any time without having to come bother me :) I am not having any problems making the pivot table and connecting to the SQL data. But all dates come in as numbers, i.e. 1/4/2006 would show up as week "1" or quarter "1" or day "4" but not 1/4/2006. The problem is when I create a pivot tables with week ending sales totals each week in the table shows up as a number, 1 - 52 and this confuses the users. What I want to show is the actual week ending date not the number of the week. Is this possible? Thanks Steve |
#2
![]()
Posted to microsoft.public.excel.programming
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
Just in case anyone else is having this problem, the solution is to use
the "Group By..." function within the pivot table. By using this function you can group dates together and have them show up as actual TEXT dates such as Jan, Feb, Mar instead of 1, 2 and 3. Thanks Steve |
Reply |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
![]() |
||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Pivot tables - Editing the data source shared by multiple pivot ta | Excel Discussion (Misc queries) | |||
Data Source in Pivot Tables | Charts and Charting in Excel | |||
Multiple Pivot tables using the same source data | Excel Discussion (Misc queries) | |||
Source Data in Pivot Tables | Excel Worksheet Functions | |||
Pivot Table data source "data source contains no visible tables" | Excel Worksheet Functions |