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Compute “running total in” across years in a Pivot Table

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Assume quantity sold date by date and City in a three column database.  The objective is to determine year wise, month wise and City wise running total of quantity sold in a Pivot Table. The issue which will arise with generating this result in a Pivot Table will be that the Show Values As > Running […]

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Ensure that “Show Value as” feature of the Pivot Table works even when some Pivot Table columns are unfiltered/hidden

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Let’s say the data sheet has Sales and Profit data by Product, Region, Salesman and Date.  One may want to analyse the following via a Pivot Table “The Sales Delta by year, month, salesman and product i.e. for May 2012, compute the [Sales in May 2012] less [Sales in May 2011] for every salesman and product.  Do […]

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