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    Hiding Specific Fields on Pivot Table Fields

    Hello guys,

    Does anybody know any way to hide specific fields on the Pivot Table Fields List?

    Explaining a little bit better....

    I have a huge database, with many columns as volume sold, price, cost and so on.
    And still, many calculated field.

    The problem is that there too many fields on the list where I select what I want and most part of them are used only on the formulas. So I will never use it on the "visual" part of the pivot table.

    To avoid this mess, I would like to hide all unnecessary info.

    So even with many columns, it should present to the final user only some of the calculated fields.

    See the example (and sorry, but my Office is portuguese). I have to let only part of these fields.

    How can I do that?

    Thanks in advance.
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    Re: Hiding Specific Fields on Pivot Table Fields

    Make sure the columns you want to add in the list are next to each other in the main database, and then when you initialize the pivot table, adjust the range to cover only those columns...
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    Re: Hiding Specific Fields on Pivot Table Fields

    Maybe I was not totally clear.

    Try to give an example to a better understanding...

    I have a database with volumes sold and total revenue.
    As I need to calculate the avg price for each customer or product, I created a calculated field:

    AVG Price = Total Revenue / Unit sold

    As on the pivot table (for the final user) I don't need to show the total values, only Units and AVG Price, I would like to hide the Total Revenue.
    Considering that this case repeats to at least 15 different items, my fields list has a lot of "useless" items that I prefer to hide (avoid messy and mistakes).

    Any way to do it?


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    Re: Hiding Specific Fields on Pivot Table Fields

    I am not 100% sure I really understand..

    Can you not just right click on the field you want to hide and select Hide...?

    Maybe an actual sample workbook showing your situation would help.

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    Re: Hiding Specific Fields on Pivot Table Fields

    See the file with the example.

    My intention is to avoid unnecessary items on the PivotTable Field List, because there is to many items and user will play with only some of them.
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    Re: Hiding Specific Fields on Pivot Table Fields

    I don't think you can change that list unless you either

    a rearrange columns and select only columns you want to show in the list.. as I first mentions, or

    b create a second database with only columns you want to show and do Pivot Table based on that new table instead.

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    Re: Hiding Specific Fields on Pivot Table Fields

    I can't do that.

    Because for every different layout or filter I did, the calculate field (avg price) must be recalculated.
    So, if I make a database without Total revenue, i can't do the avg price (formula)

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    Re: Hiding Specific Fields on Pivot Table Fields

    and.... completing...

    I don't want to show Total Revenue on the PivotTable Field List.
    Only the avg price (CF).


    regards,

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