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    Using a filter on a Pivot table column

    In the attached spreadsheet I am looking at schools that have entered their pupils to study maths and sit an exam at either GCE or GCSE level. I have shown how many children they entered across the last three years and I'm showing this in the columns. Is there any way to filter the values in column E so it is only showing the schools with '0'. I haven't been able to do this so far.

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    Re: Using a filter on a Pivot table column

    Hi EA,

    Perhaps using the Bottom 2 schools Values is what you need? See the attached:
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    Re: Using a filter on a Pivot table column

    You could add a Slicer and select the zero amount. See attached
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    Re: Using a filter on a Pivot table column

    Thank you Marvin and Richard. Both of those suggestions would usually work but I need to still be able to see the GCSE data. I'd want it to look like this:

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    Re: Using a filter on a Pivot table column

    Selecting Attachment 775686 results in the following message: "Invalid Attachment specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator".
    Please utilize the information in the banner at the top of the page to put a mockup of your expected GCSE data in an Excel file.
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    Re: Using a filter on a Pivot table column

    Sorry about that. Can you see it now?

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    Re: Using a filter on a Pivot table column

    I get the same message as before.

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    Re: Using a filter on a Pivot table column

    That's strange, I'm simply clicking import image. Will try importing as an attachment. As you can see in the pivot table it is showing both the GCSE and the GCE columns. To get to this I filtered by the school names but when I'm doing this for real there will be 100's of schools so it won't be practical to do that.
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    Re: Using a filter on a Pivot table column

    A low-tech proposal would be to add a column to the source data that will return true/false based on the sum of the GCE entries being zero.
    The formula for the helper column is: =SUMIFS([Entries],[School name],[@[School name]],[Level],"GCE")=0
    The new column is then used as a filter for the pivot table without having to filter by school names.
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    Re: Using a filter on a Pivot table column

    Love this. Thanks.

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    You're Welcome. Thank You for the feedback and for marking the thread as 'Solved'. I hope that you have a blessed day.

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