Pivot tables Excel 2003 absolute references

I've just installed office 2003. I use piovt tables a lot. Before I could use
an existing pivot table in formulas outside the table itself with great ease.
But now, everytime I create a formula outside the pivot table all references
are absolute and is full of no use formulas (like Get.Pivotdata(...). Only
with a lot of work I can go around this new "feature" in excel 2003. Is there
a way to solve this?

"Poj" wrote:

> I've just installed office 2003. I use piovt tables a lot. Before I could use
> an existing pivot table in formulas outside the table itself with great ease.
> But now, everytime I create a formula outside the pivot table all references
> are absolute and is full of no use formulas (like Get.Pivotdata(...). Only
> with a lot of work I can go around this new "feature" in excel 2003. Is there
> a way to solve this?

You can get the old formulas by typing the cell references directly, rather
than clicking on the cells you want to reference. E.g., if B5 is in the
pivot table, and you want to use its value in a formula in D5 (which is
outside the pivot table), go to D5 and type "=B5...", rather than "="
followed by a mouse click on B5.

You need to turn this feature off (or on) with the Generate GetPivotData
button. There are instructions here for adding the Generate GetPivotData
button
to a toolbar, and toggling the feature on and off:


http://www.contextures.com/xlPivot06.html




"Poj" wrote:

> I've just installed office 2003. I use piovt tables a lot. Before I could use
> an existing pivot table in formulas outside the table itself with great ease.
> But now, everytime I create a formula outside the pivot table all references
> are absolute and is full of no use formulas (like Get.Pivotdata(...). Only
> with a lot of work I can go around this new "feature" in excel 2003. Is there
> a way to solve this?