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How to subtract two pivot table columns that already represent a percent of column total

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    Question How to subtract two pivot table columns that already represent a percent of column total

    I have a two part question:

    I have a pivot table where I display gross sales by brand(columns) for customers(rows) as a percent of column total for different years. In this case, separate columns display percentages that sum to 100% per column. I want to show the growth over years so I'd ideally like to subtract the 2019 numbers from 2020( two separate columns). Normally, I'd use a calculated field to subtract 2020-2019 gross sales, but I want the new column to display the differences of percent of column total. When I do this as a calculated field, I can't keep the values as a percent of the column total. For example, if brand A had 25% of its sales with customer A in 2019, and 35% in 2020, I want my new column to display +10%. Is there a way to do this?

    I also want this pivot table to be adjustable to represent each cell as a percent of column total or a percent of row total. I already use a bunch of slicers so is there a way to include a slicer or drop down menu to filter between % of row and percent of column?

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    Re: How to subtract two pivot table columns that already represent a percent of column tot

    I tried adjusting the source data for the pivot to represent percent of total. However, I want percent of total for each brand individually, not total sales.

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    Re: How to subtract two pivot table columns that already represent a percent of column tot

    HOW TO ATTACH YOUR SAMPLE WORKBOOK:

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    Re: How to subtract two pivot table columns that already represent a percent of column tot

    I have attached an example workbook
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    Re: How to subtract two pivot table columns that already represent a percent of column tot

    I changed the format of sheet 2 (all sales in 1 column).

    After that a pivot table.

    See the attached file.

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    Re: How to subtract two pivot table columns that already represent a percent of column tot

    Thanks for the response. However, I would ideally like to take: 'sum of 2020 sales'/column total - 'Sum of 2019 Sales'/Column total and create a new column with this information.

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    Re: How to subtract two pivot table columns that already represent a percent of column tot

    Not exactly. Ideally it would display as attached. Here I manually inputted the data.
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    Re: How to subtract two pivot table columns that already represent a percent of column tot

    With helpcolumns on the data sheet.

    Please reply if this is what you expected.

    The results are not the same.

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