12 Pro PivotTable Formatting Tricks = No more UGLY PivotTables!

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Despite decades of pivot table practice, you just taught me fews things (template formating) I always looked for, in a cristal clear manner. Very professional. Thank you very much.

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[@marcovirtual]

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[@koitaki]

What Tristan said...some really creative stuff here, thanks Myanda!

[@Adam_K_W]

This is one of the best videos you've done to date! Thank you so much for consolidating all of this into a simple, easy to navigate, useful set of tips and tricks! Pivot tables are so widely used these days, and even though they are sort of being replaced by Power BI, they still have their place. Awesome.

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[@krishna6296]

Perfect tutorial, straight to the point. Great work. Thank you!

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[@goingvenus5603]

THANK YOU! I've been an Excel trainer for over 30 years and using PivotTables since they first came out. I never did learn that you can set PivotTable defaults in the Options dialog box. I"m ecstatic because it never made sense to me that we had to change the PT layout every. single. time. to a specific option. Amazing!

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Glad you can make use of it 😊

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Perfect format! Once done you can present directly to the Management without any changes or modifications.

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Indeed!

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[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

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[@ivanbork4175]

Thank you Mynda, always very inspirational to see your tutorials, sometime almost lifechanging. In this case I have done something similar, and have created my own PivotTable styles, and then saved the workbook as templates .xltx, including introduction sheet and print layout for some sheets added head and footer, and links to a couple of lists holding essential number /- names for categories. All in all it saves time end ensure a consistent in the way the different jobs have

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Great idea, Ivan!

[@SeaOfMadness]

The tip of adding the space is genius - Can't believe I didn't think of that before!

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

So pleased you can make use of it 😊

[@silversolver7809]

Excellent! I've used pivots 'forever' but still learned a couple of things :)

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[@Koel0202]

This is genius! Thanks, Mynda for all the tricks!

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Pronounce extreme convex and sweet accent and perfection.. Outstanding.

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[@flightforge30]

thats another level of pivot table knowledge..thanks a alot for sharing it to us

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Hi Mynda You are really the best.

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[@billyjayamunga]

Exactly what I was looking for. Brilliant as always. Thanks Mynda!

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[@dompedro14]

As always Mynda you provide excellent tutorials in a simple and easy way to understand. Thanks so much.

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[@shadrackawunyo7786]

Very well showcased Mynda. I love the presentation

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Thank you so much 🤗

[@NancyMancarious]

I now know that I've mastered the pivot tables when all of these tips are not new to me. Thank you - always helpful.

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Great to hear!

[@JJ_TheGreat]

5:07 Wow! That is brilliant 👏! I never knew you could do that! 😀

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

It's the little things that count 😊

[@kevinbush4300]

Brilliant… pivot tables play such a big part in my stuff, but they ARE ugly. This will solve that. I have to say, you and Leila have given me so much finesse in my workbooks. Thanks Mynda

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Wonderful to hear, Kevin!

[@Pshor]

You are indeed the best I have watched! Thank you

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Wow, thank you!

[@alexanderbaranov5418]

Best video book about Excel on the KZbin 👍

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Wow, thanks!

[@TheTinaMarbury]

You are the BEST excel teacher EVER!😁

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Aw, thanks so much 🙏😊

[@NewYears1978]

The number of times I have had a pivot table that I had to go and convert to just a normal data table and try to move over to the left the main field.... I had no clue you could repeat the labels and also TAB format which does what I was doing manually already. Wow. Great video =D

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

So pleased you can save some time with these techniques 😊

[@vishwanath1810]

Learnt so many new things despite using excel for years now!! Thanks again 🤝

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Great to hear!

[@brianxyz]

The sorting tip at the beginning is amazing. Had no idea you could do that!

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Glad it was helpful!

[@marcolevasquez]

Hy Mynda, great video. This was very helpful for me; saving a bunch of time. Thanks!

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[@Earth-360]

You are a gem

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Thank you!

[@sjdyt]

I use pivot tables a lot but I still learned a couple of things here which I hadn’t really thought about before. I’ll be amending my defaults after I press post!

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[@jawadahmadehssan6251]

Thank you Mynda. It was indeed useful

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So glad! 😊

[@JJ_TheGreat]

10:07 Oh, wow! I didn't even think about re-naming the "(blank)" to "" (nothing). I always went into the Pivot Table options in order to hide blanks.

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Typing over the blank in the cell is just a shortcut to editing how the PivotTable handles blanks in the Options dialog box.

[@ahmedshalaby9343]

Greetings from Egypt , great and very simple video thank you

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Great video!

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[@kudifilipe9875]

Thanks 4 sharing, and level up my Excel skills...

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[@karennguyen7083]

Great video as usual. Thank u so much, Mynda 🤩

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Thanks for watching!

[@HenricAndersen]

I feel much like a pivot table master, but newertheless I learned a few new things. Thank you very much Mynda 🙏

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I'm so glad it was worth your time to watch!

[@MegaTrickykid]

Simply great! Thanks for this outstanding tutorial!

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🙏 Glad you liked it!

[@vijayarjunwadkar]

Thank you Mynda for yet another practical and useful video for the most commonly used but often confused; Pivot Tables. I got to know many new things. Keep up the great work!

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Thanks so much, Vijay!

[@2bczar4u]

Wow, quite a few little tricks I did not know. Thank you once again!

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Great to hear 😊

[@ricardomantovaniassis]

Thank you so much, Mynda. 🥰🥰🙌

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My pleasure!

[@vanbap5638]

Great. Thank you very much! I applied it to my report.

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Awesome to hear!

[@al3xj]

Hi Mynda, thanks again - and a question - if you don't use pivot themes but format by like elements as in minutes: 4:46, how to easily bring same formatting to other tables? Or must it be done manually in your steps above? Or for a fixed style, would you create a theme, so it can be applied as needed auto? Thanks in advance - ah answered in the end! :) thanks Mynda

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Glad you enjoyed it 😁

[@txreal2]

Forgot all about Default PivotTable Layout. Thanks!

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Glad it was worth your time to watch 😊

[@JJ_TheGreat]

Also, thanks for showing how to configure the default Pivot Table layout. I didn't know about that, either.

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

So pleased you found so many nuggets in this video 😊

[@Everyonelovesyou]

Very useful video for all excel users

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Glad you think so! 🙏😊

[@ynotedaw6960]

Thank you! I did not know that pivot tables could have custom formatting. This is very helpful.

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Glad I could help!

[@warrennalty6599]

To change the headings, I press ctrl-h replace, type Sum of (no space after of) and leave replace with blank. This removes Sum of leaving leading space. Great if there are many headings.

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Great tip 🙏

[@richaldaoud8416]

Thank you, very helpful video. Short and nice

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[@udayteja6595]

1:03 ---> Blown my mind 🤯

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So pleased you liked it!

[@arkai59]

I already knew some of these tricks but it is still very impressive. You really are at the top of your game, Mynda, thanks for your great input with your channel 🙂

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Thanks so much for your kind words!

[@chrism9037]

Awesome. Tons of useful stuff, thanks Mynda!

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Cheers, Chris!

[@geovanrocha2822]

Hi Mynda, Thank you very much for sharing this. It would be nice if you make another video about pivot chart formatting tricks. I always struggle with them because they change format when I use slicers, for example.

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

With Pivot Charts, you must clear all filters, then apply formatting. HTH.

[@FutureCommentary1]

I had noted this video and woke up super early today to watch it. Everybody is all power pivot and pivot tables from data models today when really sometimes a regular old pivot table does the job. They look so ugly. I have been using Excel forever. I don't know why I never really explored the formatting options. I usually copy the data from the table and do the formatting elsewhere (smh at myself lol). Thanks for this vid.

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Awesome to hear you'll be able to make use of these techniques!

[@luisalonso3018]

Excellent video, thank you! Suggestion: can you do a video teaching us tips on how to format the slicers for pivot tables. That would be great! Thank you once again.

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Already done one here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXa9q3qrZrJ8j5Y

[@TheMarkGross]

Extremely useful video

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Thank you so much. Very useful info

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You are the best, Thank you!

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Thank you! Love your videos. Great explanation with great tips!

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Thanks so much. Glad you like them!

[@the_legend3185]

Great video, if you were to add another field under your accounts and add a blank rows it adds rows between each item. Do you know of any way around this?

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Glad you liked it. Blank rows are pretty limited in options, they simply get inserted after each item based on the last item in the row labels area.

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This is super helpful.

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good job, nice way of explaination

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Thanks so much!

[@walterstevens8676]

This is very useful. I'm trying to alternate row colours, but clicking on 'row banding' isn't working, despite me clearing any existing formatting I've tried formatting the source table that the pivot table is pulled from, but that doesn't come through. Any other ideas?

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

When you choose the style that doesn't have banding, you can't turn it off and on. You'd need to first apply a style that has it in order for you to then turn it off or on.

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Lovely Mynda ♥

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Thanks for doing this!

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Superb Very Useful. Thank You so much!

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[@jeannekoh9544]

Just subscribed! Thanks for these tips!😊

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Awesome 🙏 welcome!

[@TheIvalen]

Pivot tables are my life. I'll take any of your design tips any day! I usually find myself using the pivot table for data analysis and then copying pasting the data to a static table so I can make it pretty/ready for consumption. Ok, I will try from now on just to use the Pivot table only. The reason for the static table is I often have to insert rows of 'dates' with no additional data to provide a continuous timeline and the Pivot table doesn't let me do that (at least I don't think it can) without modifying the raw input data.

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Glad this video was helpful. This tutorial explains how to make PivotTables display missing dates: www.myonlinetraininghub.com/display-missing-dates-in-excel-pivottables

[@mamtabhat5221]

You are the best...Many many thanks

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[@budiwijoyo8388]

This video are nailed, but i wondering how you made that financial statement template ?

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Thanks so much. See this video for creating the P&L: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5y4goaud7ufkJo

[@Kursatural]

Thank you for sharing!

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[@tomascoleto]

So cool and useful 👌. Lots of thanks 😊

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[@sachinkishore4115]

Thank you so much. its very useful tricks

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[@coolzami1]

Hi Mynda, Thanks for the tutorial. Can we create calculated items for Gross Profit %? Also can we lock expand and collapse button as it is expanding and collapsing while clicking on calculated item?

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Please see the Profit and Loss video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5y4goaud7ufkJo You can turn off the expand & collapse buttons, as shown in the video.

[@ashrafkamal2011]

please we need more videos related to financial statements and finance trick....

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

I'll keep it in mind 😊

[@eleburciaga6769]

Hello, can you do a center of gravity tutorial to select an optimal location for an office?

[@TheNeilsolaris]

Thanks for the tutorial! Can I ask, in the first place, in order to be able to separate Cost of Goods Sold and Expenses (both with separate headings), did you have a separate column in your data source, where you could indicate which category it belonged? If not, how do I provide separate headings in a single pivot table, like you've done? Thanks.

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

You can see the step by step tutorial to create the Profit & Loss and get the example file here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5y4goaud7ufkJo

[@TheNeilsolaris]

Brilliant, thanks a lot! I can see straight away on that video that you do indeed have a separate column for Cost of Goods Sold, Expenses etc.@@MyOnlineTrainingHub

[@rexbk]

Thank you, Minda. Q: Do you have a video that explain how to do pivot table to show petty cash in hand on any selected date?

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

I don't have anything that specifically covers that scenario, sorry.

[@rexbk]

@@MyOnlineTrainingHub Thanks

[@aicx40]

Awesome. Thanks for sharing.

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Thanks for watching!

[@anubhav19888]

tks. it has good information. whenever i click for 'subtotal'..sometime subtotal row is shaded and sometime not (i think when i have more columns). is there any method to apply shade to subtotal row so that it is distinctly visible

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Go to the PivotTable Design tab on the ribbon and choose a style that suits, if there isn't one, then you can create a custom style.

[@gabytobin2695]

Thank you!

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Pleasure!

[@danielhartjes2479]

Very nice video. Thank you!

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Glad you liked it!

[@AZGATOR2002]

Agreed, the content is of high value. But do you produce your own videos? A reall well polished product, audio, transitions, all of it. Thank you!

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Thanks so much! Yes, I record, edit and produce my own videos 😊

[@walidgamal9309]

Hi Ma'am, I see in this video 2 pivot tables for Profit and Loss, and Budget variance, would you please to refere me to any of your video on how to form pivot tables from raw data to build profit and loss and budget variance report? thank you so much

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Sure, you can see it here: Easy Excel PivotTable Profit & Loss Statements kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5y4goaud7ufkJo

[@ExcelTemplatesSolutions]

Very useful, thanks

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Glad to hear that! 🙏

[@BlackCowOppa]

Very useful, thanks! 😊

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Glad it was helpful!

[@tanweerabbasabbas649]

mynda. you are cool!!

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Glad you liked my video 😊🙏

[@stanTrX]

Thank you for these useful tips. Is it possible to save the final result as a custom pivot format style? Edit: I think you have already answered at 10:40 😅

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Glad you found them helpful!

[@datareggibi]

Amazing!

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Thanks! 😊

[@SybedeJong]

Hi Mynda, Thanks for the great video. I was wondering why you mentioned having all row labels on for lookup purposes, while you can also use the getpivotdata function. I see there may be situations in which one is preferred over the other. Maybe a nice one for another video some day?

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Thank you! GETPIVOTDATA can perform a lookup of sorts, but it's not as user friendly as XLOOKUP and for that you need row labels repeated. I love GETPIVOTDATA too. I did a video on it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnXJkIKIo7h2q5Y

[@balasooriyamahesh]

Thank you ❤

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

You're welcome 😊

[@CideeTV]

thanks for the sharing..

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My pleasure 😊

[@ConnerZee]

I thought I i knew all there was about pivot tables and im no novice haha! Im definitely going to implement a few if these tips ASAP

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Awesome to hear 😁

[@Mark-Bench]

one addition. The only way to transfer a style from one excel file to another is by copying a pivot table with it's style into the other one and then delete it. the style formatting will stay and is now available in the sheet. also works for slicer styles created for Pivot tables.

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

I assume you mean PivotTable styles, in which case, great tip. Thanks for sharing.

[@Mark-Bench]

@@MyOnlineTrainingHub I just checked, doesn't work anymore, only works with slicer style - disappointed now 😞

[@mahathmasadineni2884]

Hi Mynda, If i expand the Gross Profit . The First line design is changing it has 2 bottom rows and one top row but ideally it should need to have no boarders above and below like Revenu right.. Please let me know how can fix it if we have the solution... Ideally it need to apply the boarders dynamically..

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

The Gross profit row is not supposed to be expanded.

[@robparker1625]

Very useful 👍

[@MyOnlineTrainingHub]

Glad you think so!