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Can noone help with this pivot table issue?

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    Can noone help with this pivot table issue?

    Hi,

    I've tried to post the below before, but noone seems to know the answer, so I will throw the gauntlet again:

    I would like to make a pivot table based on three colums:

    1: A company name
    2: A Date
    3: A colum with two different kinds of text strings...lets call the column name "Value" and the possible values: "A" and the other "B".

    The pivot table is set up with company name in the top row and Date in the left colums. In the data area i have Count of "Value".

    This gives me two colums with the count of "A" and "B" broken down on company names and dates.

    What I want is to show only the "A" column as a percent of a total count of both values..so for company name (Microsoft) and date (01.01.2006) i want a percentage of count of A divided by count of A + B.

    However I also want to show this as a graph, but without showing B.

    Here the problem: When I hide B, the percentage for A goes to 100%, because I have defined A as "% of row". Naturally when i take B out of the equation, % of row is 100%.

    So how can i include B in the calculations, but not show it on the graph? In the pivot table I can naturally just hide the column, but the graph is more tricky.

    I hope someone can help me with this.

    Thx. in advance.

    Lars

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    Hi

    if you have an ordinary table in an excel spreadsheet with all of your data in
    and a pivot table pulls this data why not only pull the ones you want
    i.e. miss out the b coloumn. That way only the data you want would show.

    Apart from that i dont know another way around it

    Hope it helps
    Last edited by JR@SGC; 09-26-2006 at 07:43 AM.
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