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    Combining tables from multiple sheets

    Good afternoon,

    I'm using excel 2013 and have a basic understanding of Pivot Tables and Tables in excel but have a long way to go!

    I've recorded my spending in excel. I have a different sheet for each month, with the data recorded in a table and a pivot table summarising the totals.

    Is there a way I can get excel to combine all this information for me onto 1 table that shows my trends across the months? I've seen some videos on consolidating data but it all seems to be combining info using a primary key to create relationships and that doesn't apply here.

    Anyone able to help?
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    Hi, there

    Since you made the expenditure journals by recording one entry after another, why don't you record them directly in one table? It'll be pretty easy to apply filters or pivot table to the datatable.

    If in order to grasp functionalities of Excel, say Data Modeling available since Excel 2013, I think you need a beads thread (termed Dimentional table) to string together all the beads (your expenditure journals, termed Fact tables) by creating relations among them; that's a date table here.

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    Re: Combining tables from multiple sheets

    You can load the various months to Power Query. Append each month to the other. Close and Load the data back to Excel Native and then create your pivot tables. Here is one tutorial. There are lots of others out there.

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    Re: Combining tables from multiple sheets

    Hi Alansiman,

    Thanks for showing me that, really useful!

    1 quick question, when you go through the process of combining all the sheets, you end up with a load of new ones from all the queries that you create before you apend them.

    Are you able to then delete the sheets that are created, keeping just the final apended one, or does that mess it up?

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    Re: Combining tables from multiple sheets

    Instead of loading the tables directly into excel, grab them from the source and when you load and close, do it to connection only. In this manner, you have not created new tables in your workbook. You may want to pick up the book "M is for (Data) Monkey" by Ken Puls and Miguel Escobar. Available on Amazon.

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    Re: Combining tables from multiple sheets

    Cool, thanks for the help!

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