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Excel Pivot Table Tutorial -- Multiple Consolidation Ranges

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To create a Pivot Table, you can use data from different sheets in a workbook, or from different workbooks, if those tables have identical column structures. However, you won't get the same pivot table layout that you'd get from a single range. This pivot table tutorial explains the steps to create a pivot table from multiple consolidation ranges, describes the limitations, and suggests workaround solutions.

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Create a pivot table from multiple consolidation ranges

Choose Data | PivotTable and PivotChart Report Select Multiple consolidation ranges, click Next Select one of the page options, click Next Select each range, and click Add If you chose 'I will create the page fields', you can select each range, and assign field names, in step 2b Click Next

Select a location for the PivotTable, then click Finish In the Column dropdown, hide any columns that contain meaningless data. For example, the Colour column might contain all zeros, because the colours are text, not numbers.

Limitations of Multiple Consolidation Ranges In this example, Item is the first column in the data source, and the pivot table row heading shows the item names. Remaining fields are shown in the column area. You can change the function (e.g. SUM) that is being used by the data value, but it will use the same function on all these columns. The Pivot Table contains some meaningless data, such as sum of Date and columns full of zeros where the database columns contain text. To avoid this, you can rearrange your database columns, and then use data ranges that only include the columns that you want to total. If possible, move your data to a single worksheet, or store it in a database, such as MS Access, and you'll have more flexibility in creating the pivot table. Or, you can create named ranges in an Excel file, and use MS Query to combine the data. There are sample files here: http://www.contextures.com/excelfiles.html#PT0007 Download the sample file for this pivot table tutorial

Pivot Table Tutorial List

Excel Pivot Table -- Introduction  Excel Pivot Table -- Create a Pivot Table in Excel 2007  Excel Pivot Table -- Data Field Layout Excel Pivot Table -- Show and Hide Items Excel Pivot Table -- Clear Old Items Excel Pivot Table -- Field Settings Excel Pivot Table -- GetPivotData Excel Pivot Table -- Grouping Data Excel Pivot Table -- Multiple Consolidation Ranges Excel Pivot Table -- Printing    Excel Pivot Table -- Custom Calculations  Excel Pivot Table -- Pivot Cache      Excel Pivot Table -- Protection   Excel Pivot Table -- Grand Totals Excel Pivot Table -- Running Totals   Excel Pivot Table -- Filter Source Data

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