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    Pivot Table, Multiple Columns with Text Values, Count is Wrong when adding multiple column

    I'm not sure why it's so hard to find an answer to simple things but it is. Not one example exists. Apparently, no one thinks like me.
    I have a bunch of columns I created: Date Columns and Text Columns. The Text Columns contain either TRUE or FALSE. Three column headings: R1, R2, and R3 with each column containing TRUE or FALSE. I simply want a total of TRUE values for each column heading in a pivot table. You pull 1 column into Row Label and Values, no problem. You pull two columns in, EXPLOSION. Values no longer correct. Not sure why but that's what happens. Trying to figure out how many TRUEs there are for each Column heading. Simple right? Wrong. See attachment. "Master" is my source and "Latest" is my pivot.
    It's kind of crazy but all examples I've come across absolutely no one has a data set up like mine where they show how to do this.
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    Re: Pivot Table, Multiple Columns with Text Values, Count is Wrong when adding multiple co

    Hello,

    your data is already in a report format and cannot be used to create the pivot report you describe (as far as I understand). Put the data into a table with four columns:

    StartDate | EndDate | Rcategory | Rvalue

    The values in Rcategory are either R1, R2 or R3. The Rvalues are either TRUE or FALSE.

    Now you can create a pivot table where you drag the Rcategory into the row area. Drag Rvalues into the value area and again into the page filter. Set the filter to TRUE.

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    cheers, teylyn
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    Re: Pivot Table, Multiple Columns with Text Values, Count is Wrong when adding multiple co

    Thanks for the reply. The data will be coming in automatically as I have laid out in the "Master" sheet. I'm trying to create a pivot table based on that. Creating one isn't the issue. When I try to pull in more than one R column (R1, R2, R3), the data seems to get confused so that I can't get a total for each column value (based on TRUE value). Just trying to get a count of "TRUE" values for each column.

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    Re: Pivot Table, Multiple Columns with Text Values, Count is Wrong when adding multiple co

    That's how pivot tables work. If you pull several columns into the row area, they form a hierarchy and you will not be able to filter on individual columns.

    What you describe can be done by a simple table, where the columns exist side by side, not in a hierarchy.

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    Re: Pivot Table, Multiple Columns with Text Values, Count is Wrong when adding multiple co

    So you're saying not to use a pivot table but to use a regular table. And from that, I should be able to pull in all columns (R1, etc) and get a count of the TRUE and FALSE for each column?

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    Re: Pivot Table, Multiple Columns with Text Values, Count is Wrong when adding multiple co

    Thanks for the insight on what you can and can't do with pivot tables. This thread was a life saver.

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    Re: Pivot Table, Multiple Columns with Text Values, Count is Wrong when adding multiple co

    Aside from writing a macro which I'm probably about to do how would you convert a table with the first format talked about to teylyn's solution? Which would basically mean make an entry in a new table for each cell in R1 -R3

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