Creating pivot tables by the filter

When working with pivot tables, you will sometimes use filters to change how the data is presented in report based on the selected criteria. Using filters or using slicers are completely legitimate methods. But what if you want to create a separate report for each criterion you used in the filter. Excel has a simple option that allows you to do this…

Problem with date hierarchies

One of the earlier posts referred to date hierarchies, a relatively new functionality that allows the month, quarter, or year to be automatically created based on a column containing a date (depending on the data that column contains). This can cause a problem with previous reports that contain dates, and the user wants to see them as originally created. How to solve this?