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Can a Pivot Table pull data from multiple workbooks?
To create a Pivot Table, you can use data from different sheets in a workbook, or from different workbooks, if those tables have identical column structures. However, you won’t get the same pivot table layout that you’d get from a single range, as you can see in the screen shot below.
From what I can tell, you can’t have pivot tables in a shared workbook, but this workbook doesn’t have multiple users in it, and it’s not a shared workbook, they just want to allow multiple copies to exist and pull the information.
How do you create a second pivot table on the same sheet?
Create Two Pivot Tables in Single Worksheet
- Select any Cell in the Source Data > click on Insert > Tables and select Recommended PivotTables option.
- On Recommended PivotTables screen, choose the PivotTable Layout that you want to use and click on OK.
Where does the pivot table data come from?
The problem here is the dataconnection from which the pivot content and the main data is coming from. in general the data can be any external sources or even SharePoint list but will not be another excel. check the dataconnection settings with in the properties of the excel file from the pivot gallary to make sure it is a proper repository.
User one is working on the file, but user two is near the end of inputting data and closing the file, all the data that two has entered is not available to one, as twos file is still open, so one is working with data that will shortly be updated, therefore his reading of the data on his desktop is wrong.
How to create a PivotTable with an external data source?
To create a new external data connection to SQL Server and import data into Excel as a table or PivotTable, do the following: Click Data > From Other Sources. Click the connection you want. Click From SQL Server to create a connection to a SQL Server table. Click From Analysis Services to create a connection to a SQL Server Analysis cube.
How do you create a pivot table in Excel?
To create a new connection to an Access database and import data into Excel as a table or PivotTable, do the following: Click Data > From Access. In the Select Data Source dialog box, locate the database you want to connect to, and click Open. In the Select Table dialog box, select the table you want and then click OK.