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    Question Pivot table noob in need of guidance

    I'm trying to create several pivot table to clean things up in a massive excel spreadsheet.
    In my columns I have about 75 questions, and the answers are on separate rows. I tried "grouping" some of the questions to create pivot tables with similar content and get the count of each possible answer for them (5 answers possible : poor, fair, good, very good and excellent) but I can't for the life of me figure out how to make the pivot table work.

    First image is an example of how the table would look like before
    Screen Shot 2020-12-10 at 3.29.00 PM.png
    And the second image is what I want to achieve with the pivot table
    Screen Shot 2020-12-10 at 3.29.05 PM.png

    I've also included a test spreadsheet if someone is kind enough to show me how to proceed to achieve the desired result...
    Pivot Test.xlsx

    Thanks.
    Last edited by veeejay; 12-11-2020 at 01:05 PM.

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    Re: Pivot table noob in need of guidance

    You need to restructure your data to get the After layout.

    The data should be 3 fields.
    ID|Question|Answer

    I also added the answers to the Custom Lists in order to get the order, which would usually be alphabetical.


    If you stick with your original layout you can see 1 question at a time.
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