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Filter drop down box in pivot table
I recently upgraded to Excel 2007 and I'm having difficulty with pivot
tables. I have a pivot table with three report filter fields. In previous versions-2003, once I select criteria in the first filter drop down box, the second filter drop down box would only show me a subset of the original data based on the first filter. Once I select the criteria in the 2nd filter pull down box, the the 3rd filter pull down box would only show me a subset of the source data based on the first two filters applied (i.e. there are fewer choices after each query). In 2007, I noticed that once I select criteria in the first report filter pull down box, the 2nd pull down box shows all filtering options - i.e. there is no relationship to the first query criteria that has already been defined. Is there a way to reslove this? I hope this makes sense. |
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The page filters in previous versions of Excel worked the same way as
the Report filters in Excel 2007. There's no dependency between the page/report filters. The AutoFilter drop downs work the way you describe -- maybe that's what you're remembering. marcmiller wrote: I recently upgraded to Excel 2007 and I'm having difficulty with pivot tables. I have a pivot table with three report filter fields. In previous versions-2003, once I select criteria in the first filter drop down box, the second filter drop down box would only show me a subset of the original data based on the first filter. Once I select the criteria in the 2nd filter pull down box, the the 3rd filter pull down box would only show me a subset of the source data based on the first two filters applied (i.e. there are fewer choices after each query). In 2007, I noticed that once I select criteria in the first report filter pull down box, the 2nd pull down box shows all filtering options - i.e. there is no relationship to the first query criteria that has already been defined. Is there a way to reslove this? I hope this makes sense. -- Debra Dalgleish Contextures www.contextures.com/tiptech.html Blog: http://blog.contextures.com |
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Filter drop down box in pivot table
Hi,
If you are really talking about the Report Filter area = Page Area (2003), I can't duplicate your issue - for me it works the same in both versions. However, it works the way you describe for 2007, in 2003. The Page Area filters do not reduce to showing only the releveant items. -- If this helps, please click the Yes button. Cheers, Shane Devenshire "marcmiller" wrote: I recently upgraded to Excel 2007 and I'm having difficulty with pivot tables. I have a pivot table with three report filter fields. In previous versions-2003, once I select criteria in the first filter drop down box, the second filter drop down box would only show me a subset of the original data based on the first filter. Once I select the criteria in the 2nd filter pull down box, the the 3rd filter pull down box would only show me a subset of the source data based on the first two filters applied (i.e. there are fewer choices after each query). In 2007, I noticed that once I select criteria in the first report filter pull down box, the 2nd pull down box shows all filtering options - i.e. there is no relationship to the first query criteria that has already been defined. Is there a way to reslove this? I hope this makes sense. |
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