I have an expense ledger that looks essentially like this but spans seven months and counting:
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18-Apr-08pizza$10.00Food
14-Apr-08book$12.50School
13-Apr-08milk $3.99Food
13-Apr-08soap $3.99Grooming
I have been using pivot tables with great success to summarize my data according to categories, payment methods, etc. But now that I want to track monthly spending for each category, it is not working out. Grouping the date fields doesn't work for me for the following reasons:
1. After grouping, the pivot table treats Jan as the oldest month for sorting purposes even though it isn't so in my data set.
2. Based on #1, I believe that the pivot table’s monthly grouping works like the month() function, which returns the month without the year attached. This will not work for my data, which will likely span more than a year eventually.
3. When I choose to group the date fields in one pivot table, they also get grouped in other tables where such grouping is undesirable.
Can I use sumif() or sumproduct() in conjunction with a pivot table or some other way to tabulate my monthly totals?
How can I get a pivot table to calculate the average of the monthly totals and not the average of all the raw data.
Below is a pivot table of the data on the left. When the pivot table averages the months it calculates the average of every single record, 48.83. How can I get it to average the monthly totals:average(apr,may,Jun)= 179.05
Date cost Sum of cost Years Date 4/1/2011 -75.00 2011
2011 Average Monthly Average 4/11/2011 -58.88 Apr May Jun
I'm using Excel 2007 and am having an issue with grouping/ungrouping fields in pivot tables.
I have 2 separate pivot tables, both from the same named data source, but summarizing different data selections. Both tables include the date field, I am trying to produce both a daily and a monthly table, but whenever I change the grouping/ungrouping of the date field setting on one table, the other table changes to the same grouping.
Is there anyway to have one table with an ungrouped date field and one table with the grouped to month date field?
I have a large spreadsheet, which has a pivot table, this is grouped by Date (Months & Years). However whenever I refresh the table the grouping is removed. I try to re group the date, but I get a message saying "Cannot Group that selection"
The attached is the format of a pivot table i have made from a data. MY primary group is the REGION inside the region i want to group as per the LOCATION HEAD.
This report automatically sorts as per the location id.
How is it possible under region i want to group according to the location head and total. i DONT WANT TO CHANGE THE SEQUENCE OF THE COLUMS AND THE FORMATTING
I have a table with outstanding days for Funds owed by multiple accounts which dynamically changes everyday I am looking to group this table by >5days, 6 to 14 days , 16 to 40 days ,>40 to 90days and >90days consistently even though the table will change dynamically every day..
from the Forum on building a macro and was kindly told that a Pivot Table would do the job better, which it does. However, my table has a column of several dates, I was wondering the best way to group the dates into months rather than showing the full date, eg, September instead of 16/09/08 or August instead of 01/08/08.
I have the attached Pivot table. When i create this pivot table, it groups some of the "A# and Name"s.
e.g. "A277003 / VICTORIA WILSON" "A444302 / YASEMIN KELES"
Is there for the pivot table to not group by the A# & Name and to list the A# and names on each row...
Please see Output sheet to see exactly how I would like it?... But i would like this to be done in the pivot table so i can create a macro..... to do this..
I am having issues grouping dates by month in the attached example. The date field is formatted as text. When I attempt to group in the pivot table, I am not given the grouping dialog box. I can't figure out why.
I know how to get the pivot table in the my database to group patients by age. However it groups them like this:5-14 15-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-74
Medically it doesn't make sense to group pediatric patients with adolescents and adolescents with adults. What I would like to do is to get the pivot table to group patients the way I want them. Something like this:5-12 13-18 19-25 26-35 36-45 46-55 56-65 66-75 76-85
Is there a way to get a pivot table to do this? Or is there another solution?
I'm trying to create a pivot table to figure out categories of expenses over the last year. The problem is when i create this pivot table on the horizontal i see all the days of the year, as opposed to categorized by month. I've tried to 'group' the months together but not very successfully. HOW to do this grouping elegantly?
I've attached 2 screenshots.
Pic 1 - Original State of the table with all the days on the horizontal
I'm looking for a quick way of counting the proportion of records in certain number ranges e.g.
Number of records in range 1 to 50, 51-100, 101-500 etc.
i have a pivot table but I'm just not sure how to create these groupings. Is a pivot the right way to do it - or should I be doing something else with the source data.
I've created a pivot table that is not grouping "like" items. I have verified all fields are numbers using the =isnumber() formula. All items present with the "true" value. Just in case, I tried doing text to columns and refreshing the data but that did not work either. All items are formatted the same. All data fields have values.
I've gone into the table options and ticked Show totals for Rows and Columns but as you can see it only shows a total for column????? I've manually done a sum but that means it won;t be included on my pivot graph? [Code]....
I am using a database sheet to log pupil misdemeanors, namely Lates, Disruption and Absconding. From this database a pivot table is generated from which a 'hit list' of the worst 10 latecomers are compiled. The code that I have at the moment (see below) sums all misdemeanor activity by pupils rather that just values relating to lateness.
I have included a sample file with expected output ....
I had a workbook in Excel 2003 that i just moved to 2010. In the 2003 file I had 2 pivot tables, one each on a worksheet, looking at the same data, just grouped differently. One yearly, one quarterly.
Now in the 2010 workbook whenever I change the grouping on pivot table, the other one changes also. It's like they are linked together or something.
I have recently noticed a problem with a pivot table and assoicated pivot chart. The table has numerous columns from date, location and one entitled route. The route column has a value which is either a number or 'other'. The formatting of the column has been set to general (although the same problem was present under text). The problem is as follows:
When a new row of data is entered where the route is the same value as previous rows it should be grouped together. However when I go into my pivot table and look at the options for route I find the same value repeated twice. ie a route value of 155 will be listed once at the top and then lower down the list. A temporary fix is to rename all values of 155 to x155 and then back to 155. This then has everything grouped again under one value in the pivot table. As soon as new entries are added though the problem repeats itself. Does anyone know why this might be?
I have a large spreadsheet which lists individual dates over two years and circulation figures next to each date. Sometimes there are two entries for a particular date e.g. 1/10/08 there were 150 readers of magazine A and 200 readers of magazine B. When displaying this on a graph it give a bar for each day, whereas I would like a bar for each week.
Is there a formula to convert the individual dates into weeks and then total the circulation figures for that week?
I am looking for some assistance to make pivot tables with multiple data values against a control item. A sample excel file is attached herein with. I am quite new to pivot tables was unable to find out a solution self.
It's a given that formatting doesn't alter underlying values in all areas of Excel, merely changing the way cells look. But in the attached I show two pivot tables using exactly the same data with the sole exception that the first one has the date numbers formatted as numbers whereas the 2nd PT has the date numbers formatted as dates.
With the 2nd PT it will accept the Group by month functionality whereas the 1st PT won't.
On the face of it PTs seem to take more notice of the way a number is formatted when it comes to grouping rather than treating the number as a date which it can group.
Using Excel 2007 I have a pivot table that counts that number of incidents based on month and year. To get the month and year I group the date field as months and years.
My problem is if I want to filter specfic months in say year 2012 it also takes out the month in 2013. I though it used to give you the option of year and date in the filter but mines are 2 seperate filters.
Unfortunately I receive an error saying it can't group the selection.
I have done "text to columns" and made the cells - (date values) and I have had no luck.
As I am at work I can't use the HTML genie because it won't install but I have uploaded a dummy file to my dropbox which available from here [URL] .......
I pull this data from an Oracle POWER PIVOT and always have trouble grouping the dates when they come from Power Pivot. Currently working as analyst so figuring this out would make life so much easier as I could group by months etc.
I want to create a summary pivot table report + chart. What I have is 12 worksheets, one for each month, each with total amount invoiced and gross profit by client.
I want a pivot table that shows me the clients and amounts each month (this is the bit stumping me). Basically I want a drop down box to select the month on the pivot table, which then shows the data from the relevant worksheet (Aug-09, Sep-09 or whatever).
I've tried using multiple consolidation ranges but this just aggregates all the data; it doesn't allow me to limit by the worksheet the data has come from.
I'm wondering if I have to consolidate all my months into one big sheet, then add a field for the month. I would rather avoid this but accept it might be the only way.
Final thing; can't use VBA at all (too much hassle for IT apparently).
I have a pivot table with 3 levels of titles in the Row Labels - Grouping, SubGrouping and Name. In many cases there is a Grouping but no SubGrouping and always there is data in the "Name" category. I am trying to eliminate the Subtotal for the blank SubGroupings but when I try to filter out the blanks it no longer shows me any Groupings where a SubGrouping doesn't exist.
then the pivot table of data shows Dept, Sum of Hours, Sum of Total ($), Sum of Days
When you click on the drop down to adjust the filter for the Date it gives you the whole list of dates, day by day as it is in the source data.
Is there a way to make it in the filter by month and year, the way it would in an ordinary filter. So if I wanted to have the pivot table show only the values with an October date I can, rather than having to deselect all and then individually check the boxes for the 1st through to the 31st of October.?
I have an issue with a calculated item in my pivot table, because in the totals and subtotal it shows the sum of the column but I want to show the formula that I've specified to the calculated item.
For example, in the attached file, I have in rows the field "name" that has four values (A,B,C,D), in columns the field "Groups" that has "G1" and "G2". I add in the rows the calculated item "G1/G2" that has the formula G1/G2. The problem is that in the total the column "G1/G2" doesn't show the division of the total of "G1" and "G2".
I need to create a running monthly total formula for a worksheet. This is something i need in the data, so i can manipulate it without using a pivot table.
I think I would use the SUM, MONTH, and IF formulas, and maybe EOMONTH.
I guess where I'm stuck is figuring out how to make conditions for my SUM formula. So as the dates go down the page, I would like a running total in a column to the right, that will also restart with every new month.
