Selecting Multiple Itemsĭrilling into single items is all very well, but what if we wanted to display multiple items on our Pivot… say we wanted to filter it to show both Ales and Scotches. We can click any of the slicer items to immediately affect the PivotTable, and removing the filters set by the slicer is very easy as well. The great thing we can see here is that it is very easy to drill through our data. Now Beer is greyed out, which makes sense because the PivotTable is filtered to show only Scotches, none of the remaining items from the Beer category will be shown. Obviously the PivotTable contents changed, but so did the Category slicer. Just check the boxes of the fields you’d like slicers for, as shown in the image below: You’ll be prompted with a list of all fields that are available to your PivotTable (all the headers from your original data table). Excel 2013: Go to PivotTable Tools à Analyze à Insert Slicer.Excel 2010: Go to PivotTable Tools à Options à Insert Slicer.Click any cell inside your PivotTable, and: In order to add a slicer, you’ll need two things:Ĭreating a slicer is super easy.
#Create slicer in excel how to#
There are a total of 3 things that you need to know in order to use Slicers in your data sets: Unfortunately, however, the name is both accurate to its function, and scary sounding.
Simply put, Slicers are new tool built to make Pivot Table slicing easier and more inviting. It sounds like the title of a horror movie, but in Excel 2010 Pivot Table filtering changed forever (and for the better) with the introduction of “Slicers”. These buttons certainly don’t invite you to use them, and if they never get used, then the value is lost. When we create a PivotTable and send it to someone else, if they aren’t familiar with how PivotTables work, they may not feel comfortable drilling through and seeing what exists. The ability to filter a PivotTable is fantastic, but again, they have one big issue: accessibility. We could drill even further into this table by clicking the drop down arrow in cell A3, showing us only the records for Lagers or Ales, hiding the rest of the results from the Pivot. To see the written instructions, and more Slicer videos, please visit the Excel Pivot Table Slicers page on my Contextures website.How do you like that? Every record that doesn’t have a sales category of Beer is pruned away, leaving only Ales and Lagers on our PivotTable.
#Create slicer in excel update#
Watch this video to see how to update the files, connect to Slicers, and repair a problem pivot table so it works with the Slicers. See the Steps for Fixing Problem Pivot Tables Try it on a copy of your file, and you might be able to avoid starting from scratch.
There are a few steps to the process, but it doesn’t take too long. During the process, Excel makes minor repairs to the pivot table, and it is able to connect to a Slicer. I’ve had some luck with saving the file back to the old format, then re-saving it in the new format. To fix the problem, you can create a new pivot table, or try to repair the old one. Sometime I find a pivot table that isn’t recognized by the Slicers, even after converting to the new format.
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