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Michel12345
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Aug 09, 2020
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Field grouping/grouping not working in pivot table

Hi,    I spend some hours trying to bundle data in groupings in my table. Still no result.  The "field grouping" option in the menu of pivot table analysis is greyed out for some reason. Thats the...
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  • SergeiBaklan's avatar
    SergeiBaklan
    Aug 10, 2020

    Michel12345 

    You still have texts in the source table

    Most probably values were returned by formula like =IF(1,number,""). Other words cells are not blank, they have empty string value. Even if in filter they are mentioned as Blanks

    If select filter table on "blanks" only, press Del (other words clean such cells), refresh PivotTable, we will see that (blank) appears in it and grouping is available

     

    Result is

  • Michel12345's avatar
    Michel12345
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 09, 2020

    Hi

     

    Thanks. Saw these before.

     

    I found that the grouping function is not working with data comes from a formula (in my main table).

     

    But when i copy this output in a new table, without formulas, i am able to make a pivot table and do a manual grouping.

     

    Problem is that this is not how i like it to be. I want to be able to use the original input data of course and not copy paste this all te the time... 

     

    Guess it is quite hard to find the reasons why this is made this way...

     

     

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