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    Pivot table and slicer help

    Hi,

    I have created a pivot table with slicers. I can't quite get the month slicers working.

    Please see below table which records the number of days that people are absent:

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    The above formula under the total days columns calculates the difference between date from and date to, it excludes holidays which i've listed else where on the worksheet. This works perfectly.

    I'm having problems with below pivot table based on above data though. As you can see below i've created a date from slicer. But when I select just january for Jeff Banks, it shows 45 days. But 45 days spans Jan-Feb. I can't seem to display figures purely based on january. This deems the month slicer useless. Am I doing something wrong here? Any help appreciated as I'm banging my head on a wall

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    Re: Pivot table and slicer help

    The reason for this is:

    in your orginal data 01-01-2016 / 03-03-2016 the result is 45 days.

    After that you add the column (for the slicer) and tell them is is january for the whole period (which is wrong, since it is the period of 01-01-2016 / 03-03-2016).

    In that (this) case you have to split the data 01-01-2016 / 03-03-2016 into seperate rows for each period (eg. 01-01-2016 / 31-01-2016 etc).

    That is the way pivot table works.
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    Re: Pivot table and slicer help

    Hi

    thanks for the reply. it makes sense. Is there not a cleaner way to do this? the whole purpose is to report on per month. but by splitting the dates into different rows it seems counter productive

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    Re: Pivot table and slicer help

    define the period not january but e.g. differant, in that case you will know that is a period that is longer than a month.

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    to my knowledge there is no other easier solution.

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    Re: Pivot table and slicer help

    thanks, what do you mean by define the period? Would this be a different formula in the "total days" column?

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    Re: Pivot table and slicer help

    cell f4 is e.g. Differant

    cell f5 is april

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