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Lorrie Griffin
Jul 06, 2018Copper Contributor
Date Formatting in a Pivot Table
I have not been able to format dates in a Pivot Table since I started using Excel 2016. I have tried a number of fixes on the blog to no avail. The data worksheet has the date formatted as I would ...
Wyn Hopkins
Jul 06, 2018MVP
Hi Lorrie
Right Click on the 2-Jun and select Ungroup. That should fix it
To prevent it happening in future go to File > Options > Data and tick "Disable Automatic Grouping of dates"
Right Click on the 2-Jun and select Ungroup. That should fix it
To prevent it happening in future go to File > Options > Data and tick "Disable Automatic Grouping of dates"
- EtienneCHULgJan 14, 2022Copper Contributor
Wyn Hopkins thanks, dates now show as dd-mm-yy (after ungroup). Also, I ticked "Disable Automatic Grouping of dates", but still I can't change the format to dd/mm/yyyy for instance.
Thid did not happen with Excel 2013.
- Wyn HopkinsJan 15, 2022MVP
- Josh_PaluchAug 05, 2021Copper Contributor
Thank you!
- KS_PrasanthOct 07, 2020Copper ContributorThank u for the information.
- William_SFeb 02, 2019Copper Contributor
Excellent. It works!
- Lorrie GriffinJul 06, 2018Copper Contributor
Wyn,
Thank you so much. That worked!! I knew it was something like that but I had no idea that it groups the dates in a Pivot Table. You have saved me many more hours of anguish.
Have a great weekend and summer!!!
Lorrie.