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Pivot Table Duplicate January
I have a column in my original data that uses the formula =TEXT(D11,"mmmm")
to generate the month name, so that I can filter my pivot table by month. For some reason the filter option on my pivot table gives 3 separate January's and only one of those actually shows data. The other two show nothing. ( this only accurs with January, none of the other months are affected) It is no problem for me, but other people will be using this pivot table to generate reports and I want to remove the duplicates to eliminate any confusion. Can anyone help? Salahan |
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Pivot Table Duplicate January
I have had this problem before as well. Usually what corrects it for me is I
have to go through the Dates again in the original data and re-enter them in the correct format. Sometimes EXCEL takes the way you enter in a date differently no matter what format you have pre-set for it to take. For example, if you enter in a date as 5/8/2010 and want it to come out as: May.08.2010, and it doesn't, it could be because EXCEL wants you to enter it in as: 5-08-2010. I have had to go through workbooks and manually enter the date in a different before, and usually that corrects the problem. My problems with something like that usually occurs in a row that I repeatedly use one of four options: 'Y, N, N.I, F.I'. If I enter in a "y" instead of "Y", the pivottable pulling that data will then classify them as two different entries, one uppercase, one lowercase. It does not recongize it as the same answer. I then go through and change them all to uppercase for standardization help. I have noticed that sometimes after correcting the orginial data, the PivotTable will keep all the options ever entered in that workbook as an option to filter out or keep in, even if the origial choices it is showing are no longer there. When this occurs and I have several people in and out of the work book, I do one of three things: explain it, manually choose the filters to not include the orginial entery data so there is no confusion, or re-make the workbook. [I have remade several workbooks]. I hope that information helps! I've never given help for EXCEL online before.. "Salahan" wrote: I have a column in my original data that uses the formula =TEXT(D11,"mmmm") to generate the month name, so that I can filter my pivot table by month. For some reason the filter option on my pivot table gives 3 separate January's and only one of those actually shows data. The other two show nothing. ( this only accurs with January, none of the other months are affected) It is no problem for me, but other people will be using this pivot table to generate reports and I want to remove the duplicates to eliminate any confusion. Can anyone help? Salahan |
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Pivot Table Duplicate January
Hi
The problem is that blank cells will be taken to be 01 Jan 1900, and therefore return January as the Result. Change your formula to =IF(D11="","",TEXT(D1,"mmmm")) -- Regards Roger Govier Salahan wrote: I have a column in my original data that uses the formula =TEXT(D11,"mmmm") to generate the month name, so that I can filter my pivot table by month. For some reason the filter option on my pivot table gives 3 separate January's and only one of those actually shows data. The other two show nothing. ( this only accurs with January, none of the other months are affected) It is no problem for me, but other people will be using this pivot table to generate reports and I want to remove the duplicates to eliminate any confusion. Can anyone help? Salahan |
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