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n00b Q - Regarding the inner workings of pivottables
Hello all,
I just want to make sure, before I sink too many more hours into the UDF Im writing right now, that I have an accurate understanding of Pivottables. Am I correct in thinking that a Pivottable effectively caches data by right click-refreshing? So that, if I were to update or shift around the underlying data reference table, but not refresh the pivottable, the original contents of the pivottable would be untouched? I need to know this as I am writing a function that requires that the data be in a certain order before the calculation is made. If the pivottable is played with, I dont want there to be innaccurate results due to 'shuffling' and incorrect references. Thanks for the insight -S |
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n00b Q - Regarding the inner workings of pivottables
Assume you have a pivot table and then you modify its underlying table, by,
say, adding five rows. The pivot table itself will not change in appearance or layout until you hit the refresh icon (the red exclamation mark). Does that answer your question? Dave -- Brevity is the soul of wit. "S Davis" wrote: Hello all, I just want to make sure, before I sink too many more hours into the UDF Im writing right now, that I have an accurate understanding of Pivottables. Am I correct in thinking that a Pivottable effectively caches data by right click-refreshing? So that, if I were to update or shift around the underlying data reference table, but not refresh the pivottable, the original contents of the pivottable would be untouched? I need to know this as I am writing a function that requires that the data be in a certain order before the calculation is made. If the pivottable is played with, I dont want there to be innaccurate results due to 'shuffling' and incorrect references. Thanks for the insight -S |
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n00b Q - Regarding the inner workings of pivottables
Yes, thanks:)
Dave F wrote: Assume you have a pivot table and then you modify its underlying table, by, say, adding five rows. The pivot table itself will not change in appearance or layout until you hit the refresh icon (the red exclamation mark). Does that answer your question? Dave -- Brevity is the soul of wit. "S Davis" wrote: Hello all, I just want to make sure, before I sink too many more hours into the UDF Im writing right now, that I have an accurate understanding of Pivottables. Am I correct in thinking that a Pivottable effectively caches data by right click-refreshing? So that, if I were to update or shift around the underlying data reference table, but not refresh the pivottable, the original contents of the pivottable would be untouched? I need to know this as I am writing a function that requires that the data be in a certain order before the calculation is made. If the pivottable is played with, I dont want there to be innaccurate results due to 'shuffling' and incorrect references. Thanks for the insight -S |
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