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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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Excel has a very uncomfortable bug – if you create a Pivot table in Excel 2007, then it will be “readonly” in earlier versions. I.e you can’t apply any new filters or re-arrange data fields. The only picture you see is like a static snapshot of the moment when it was last saved in Excel 2007. Even saving in 2003 compatibility mode will not help. Somehow the creation algorithm of a Pivot table is different in Excel 2007.

What to do when you need to have a Pivot table which can be used for Excel 2003 and 2007 users at the same time? Read more…

Excel Excel 2003, Excel 2007, Pivot table