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Pivot Table Tip: Color All One Type of Data Items at Once

December 21st, 2009

Microsoft Excel’s styling capabilities have improved over the time. But there are still lackings on some areas. One thing I personally miss is the ability to attach styles to Pivot table items. For example you have in one table the sums of revenues and sums of quantities – and you wish the revenues to be formatted differently. Of course, you can manually change the formatting of each revenue cell, but this is not a very modern way to handle it – considering we use styles for such formatting tasks in MS Office and other programs nowadays.

I have a little tip for those of you who face the same problem – you can still attach different color to different Pivot table items. Read more…

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How to Get the Sum of Rounded Numbers “correct”?

December 14th, 2009

It’s quite common that the calculation adds precise numbers which are formatted to be less precise. It might also happen that due to rounding, the formatted result seems mathematically incorrect on screen. Read more…

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