If you like to analyze data, then you would fall in love with Pivot Tables on first sight. Pivot tables are a powerful, dead-simple & lovely way to play with your data, automate your reports and save time.
That said, not all of us know how to use them or how to get them to do what we want. So today I am presenting a small survey to know more about you and how you use Pivot Tables. It takes no more than 2 minutes and helps me in making you more awesome. Please finish the survey below.
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4 Responses to “Do you use Pivot Tables? What do you use them for & where do you struggle [Survey]”
Hello chandoo
Range A1 : A10 (*every cell contains formula)
A1 | Mumbai
A2 | Chennai
A3 |
A4 | Delhi
A5 | Kolkata
A6 |
A7 | Bangalore
A8 |
A9 | Hyderabad
A10 | Kerala
data validation -----> Allow ------> List------> Source---->"A1:A10"
after applying the datavalidation ,I can see the drop down list with data as well as blank cells (i.e, A3, A6, A8)
how to remove that blank cells in drop down list
Please Help me
Javhaa: I believe you will have to remove the blank cells from the datavalidation list range... not 100% sure, but havent heard/found another option.
furthermore, is there a particular reason you need those cells to be blank? How do you use them in the Dropdown list? ...there may be another/better option for you.
Javhaa,
this may be not the most elegant solution of doing it, but here is one possible solution:
A helper column with an array formula (array entered across all cells) sorts the empty strings to the bottom of the list. A named formula uses OFFSET to limit the input range to those values in the helper column which have texts. The named formula is then used as the input range of the data validation list:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14123700/dropdown_w-o_empty_cells.xls
As I said, for sure not the best possible way of doing it, but it works.
Robert
I use pivot tables every day, 95% of the time I use them for analysis on OLAP Cube data sets created in SQL Analysis Services. I would love to see examples of VBA for automation as to connectivity, templates/dashboards and graphs using pivot tables connected to Analysis Services cubes etc.