How to use mutiple spreadsheets in a pivot table? in Excel General Questions  
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Ian Peers 8/10/2005 8:25 AM PST
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  I am trying to use multiple spreadsheets to create a pivot table in order to
analyse corporate profitablility. I am relatively new to pivot tables and can
find little help in this area.

I have a spreadsheet with a number of tabs, with a reconciliation page that
currently uses arrays and lookup to access the data from a couple of the
other tabs. I think a pivot table would work better. any ideas?

Thanks,

-Ian
 
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Debra Dalgleish 8/10/2005 12:57 PM PST
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  You can create a Pivot Table from multiple consolidation ranges, but you
won't get the same pivot table layout that you'd get from a single
range. There's an example here:

http://www.contextures.com/xlPivot08.html

If possible, store your data in a single worksheet, or in a database,
and you'll have more flexibility in creating the pivot table.


Ian Peers wrote:
> I am trying to use multiple spreadsheets to create a pivot table in order to
> analyse corporate profitablility. I am relatively new to pivot tables and can
> find little help in this area.
>
> I have a spreadsheet with a number of tabs, with a reconciliation page that
> currently uses arrays and lookup to access the data from a couple of the
> other tabs. I think a pivot table would work better. any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ian


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