

For more on Slicers, visit this Office Online tutorial. This is a great tool for streamlining multiple Pivot Tables. The Slicer will now filter all Pivot Tables on this worksheet. Then on the home ribbon, go to Options and “Report Connections.”Ī table will appear asking you which of the Pivot Tables should connect to the Slicer. To use the slicer across multiple Pivot Tables, click inside your Slicer. But notice that it is only working on the Pivot Table you had assigned. This slicer offers an easy way to toggle your filter selection between stores. Because we want to filter all of our Pivot Tables by store, select store. The slicer is basically just a fancy filter. This is asking which of the attributes you would like to include in the slicer. To do this, select any of the three Pivot Tables, then select Analyze on the home ribbon. The Slicer tool will let us filter all three pivot tables with the click of a button. If you are looking at Store 1’s sales and want to switch over to Store 2, you need to redo three filters. This gives an easy overview of different sales metrics, but it is a pain to toggle between stores. There are 3 pivot tables to analyze sales by store: by day, by product, and by sales associate. In our example, we have weekly sales at an ice cream shop. We were able to reproduce the issue with Excel 2016: If we click on a slicer element or select a filter-value in a pivot-table, excel is shortly 'calculating' but then the filter / slicer gets reset and the data is not filtered or refreshed.
DATA ANALYSIS WITH EXCEL PIVOT TABLES AND SLICERS PLUS
To avoid multiple filters per worksheet, use the Slicer tool. Customers which are using Office 2016 Professional Plus (V ) complained, that the slicers and pivot-filters do not work. This can be annoying to maintain when many filters are involved. I use them so much that I often include multiple pivot tables per worksheet. Pivot Tables are my favorite tool in Excel.

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