Drag to multi-select slicer items [quick tip]

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Hola folks…

My trip to Houston & Dallas was very successful, fun & awesome. I got back home on Friday and instantly I am in another fun, awesome & happy place with my kids, Jo (my wife), rest of the family & friends.

Today, I want to share a very simple yet super awesome trick with you. I learned this from Augie, one of the Houston Masterclass participants.

You can drag slicer items to multi-select them.

Selecting multiple items in a slicer quickly

We know that slicers are powerful, friendly and fun way to filter the pivot tables, pivot charts, power pivot tables and regular tables (only in 2013). They are visual filters that can be used to instantly filter the data (or report). But when it comes to selecting multiple items, slicers can be hard. We must hold CTRL key and tap multiple slicer items one at a time to select them. At least that is how I used to do it.

Do you know we can drag to multi-select?

See this demo:

Drag to select multiple items on your slicers - Quick Excel Tip

How to multi-select slicer items quickly

  1. Select the first item on slicer with mouse.
  2. Drag your mouse pointer to the last item you want to select.
  3. Instantly, all items in-between will also be selected.

Thanks Augie for teaching this to me.

Here are few more quick tips to start your day.

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21 Responses to “Make a Pivot Table in Excel [15 Second Tutorial]”

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  2. Wilson says:

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  5. surbamanyam says:

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  6. jitender says:

    hello sir

    please send me some information of pivotable. and how to use it
    because I am beginer so how can i learn it the pivotable.
    and sir will you send me pivotable data because i have no data and i don't
    know how to applyed for the pivotable. give some videos so I learn quikely.

    thank you
    and my best
    anticipation

  7. keri says:

    Hi,

    This tutorail was helpful. If possible can you please email me some data, so I can create another pivot table? I am trying to learn ASAP and need some info.

    Thank you

  8. yemi says:

    Top of the day to you. can you pls send me a detailed tutorial on the pivot table tutorial? Thanks.

  9. karthick says:

    Hi,
    please tell me how to use Pivot table.

  10. Pooja says:

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    Pooja

  11. Priscilla says:

    Can you please email me information to put into a pivot table and possibly a complete set of instructions?  I am a beginner to pivot tables and am possibly interested in obtaining a position that requires pivot tables.  thank you.

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  13. Kawsar says:

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  14. James Perry says:

    Cool!
    Fast but not furious.

  15. Adepoju Teniola says:

    Pls email me details of pivot table. I want to learn it asap because I just got a job that requires this. Thanks

  16. nihal ahmed says:

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  17. Tabassum says:

    Sir please can u send me the complete explanation of pivot tables from basics

  18. Guruprasad says:

    hello,

    I wanted to know how to put pivot with emp id, emp name, emp position in one row.

    Ex:-
    cel A4 should have Emp id
    Cell B4 should have Emp Name
    Call C4 should have Emp Position

    many thanks in advance

  19. George Dorne says:

    Nice information, thanx my dear.

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