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Grouping dates in pivot table
I am pulling data from a SQL Server database to create a pivot table.
Excel (07) is not recognizing the field as a date. This is a field I would like to group by in the pivottable. I am aware of all the techniques to convert this to a date field, but I am searching for an answer as to why XL pivot tables cannot consume the dates directly from a sql query. I have played with bringing the dates back in a number of differenent formats with no success. Any insights into this would be appreciated. |
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Grouping dates in pivot table
Probably coming in as text and yuo may only need to copy an unused cell and
paste special values + "Add" to convert them to all real dates that yuo can then group "Marc" wrote: I am pulling data from a SQL Server database to create a pivot table. Excel (07) is not recognizing the field as a date. This is a field I would like to group by in the pivottable. I am aware of all the techniques to convert this to a date field, but I am searching for an answer as to why XL pivot tables cannot consume the dates directly from a sql query. I have played with bringing the dates back in a number of differenent formats with no success. Any insights into this would be appreciated. . |
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Grouping dates in pivot table
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Grouping dates in pivot table
On Nov 18, 11:23*am, Bob Umlas, Excel MVP
wrote: Probably coming in as text and yuo may only need to copy an unused cell and paste special values + "Add" to convert them to all real dates that yuo can then group "Marc" wrote: I am pulling data from a SQL Server database to create a pivot table. Excel (07) is not recognizing the field as a date. *This is a field I would like to group by in the pivottable. *I am aware of all the techniques to convert this to a date field, but I am searching for an answer as to why XL pivot tables cannot consume the dates directly from a sql query. I have played with bringing the dates back in a number of differenent formats with no success. Any insights into this would be appreciated. .- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - This is true. The trick is consuming the data directly from the query which should be possible. |
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