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I am building a pivot table report to sum a worksheet that has times recorded
in it. The data is formatted like this

Start Finish
Total Time
6/14/2006 12:00:00 AM 6/14/2006 1:40:00 AM
1:40

I want the pivot table to sum by month.

I can't figure out how to get this done. I put a column beside the data to
pull the date from the start times for the table. But I can't find a format
or formula that the pivot table will read the month from (other than retyping
the dates).

Help?


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Default pivot table not reading date formats

If you want to pivot table to sum by months, you'll need to have a helper
column with the month (and possibly year)

Try:

=date(year(A1),month(A1),1) to get the first day of the month.



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I am building a pivot table report to sum a worksheet that has times recorded
in it. The data is formatted like this

Start Finish
Total Time
6/14/2006 12:00:00 AM 6/14/2006 1:40:00 AM
1:40

I want the pivot table to sum by month.

I can't figure out how to get this done. I put a column beside the data to
pull the date from the start times for the table. But I can't find a format
or formula that the pivot table will read the month from (other than retyping
the dates).

Help?


Thanks.

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