Anyone who has made a pivot table and their grandma knows that formatting them is a pain. Let’s recap the steps to apply one of the most common formats – currency format.
- Right click on any value field
- Go to Value field settings
- Click on “Number Format” button
- Choose Currency format
- Close the boxes, one after another
Unless you get paid per click, you wont be happy with all those clicks.
Wouldn’t it be cool to just click once and apply most common format to your pivot fields?
Of course you can. Just add oneClickCurrency macro to your personal macros workbook. And then add this to your Home ribbon as a custom button and you have a one click format option for any pivot.
oneClickCurrency Macro
So are you ready for the code? Its so tiny, you could type it faster than manually formatting the pivot fields yourself 😉
Sub oneClickCurrency()
On Error GoTo GameOver
Dim pName As String, pfName As String
pName = ActiveCell.PivotTable.Name
pfName = ActiveCell.PivotField.Name
With ActiveSheet.PivotTables(pName).PivotFields(pfName)
.NumberFormat = "$#,##0.00"
End With
GameOver:
End Sub
When copy pasting this code to your personal macros workbook, change the $#,##0.00 format code to any other formatting you want to use. Here are a few more common ones.
- Accounting format (negative values in brackets, no zeros): _($* #,##0.00_);_($* (#,##0.00);_($* “”-“”??_);_(@_)
- Negative amounts in red color: $#,##0.00;[Red]$#,##0.00
- Amounts with no decimals: $#,##0
So there you go. I just save you from a massive tax. Click tax that is.
George Costanzaesque macros for you
Short & fun, that is how I like my macros. Here are a few you should add to your personal macros workbook to save time & get more out of Excel.
- Filter a table by selected criteria
- Add a popup calendar to any cell
- Highlight selected cell’s row & column
- Split text to multiple cells
- More VBA Examples
How do you format your pivots?
For most of my work, I rely on Power Pivot, which allows you to set up format options when defining a measure. But whenever I use pivots, I end up paying click tax for the formatting. Hence the macro.
What about you? How do you format your pivots? You can customize the above macro to include additional steps that you often do (changing layouts etc.) Please share your techniques & thoughts in the comments section.
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Dear.
There are a set of debit values and a set ot credit values in a column. I want a vba code by whcich the debit value plus a single / multiple credit value is zero that needs to be marked .
finally i will come to know out of the avaibale debits which cannot be used the with avilable credits either single or multiple values.
If multiple matching sets are available let it take the 1st or the 2nd one its not an issue.
Column A Ref
-1000 A
-5000 B
-8000 C
800 A
100 A
100 A
2000 B
3000 B
13000
15000
hi...
how to make this add-ins and display in ribbon... check this sample : http://www.cprsoft.com/GCDemo01.htm
thank you sir...
Please tell me format painter short cut key In excel ?
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