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Pasting Pivot Table as Values... losing Borders and formatting
This just started within the last 30 days or so... it appears that when pasting a Pivot Table as values over itself... borders and formatting are now eliminated. Extremely frustrating as I have the ...
Hi Brian,
There is a fairly good technique to paste the PivotTable values and formats, but it cost you some extra steps!
You can use the Format Painter to grab the format to the second instance of the PivotTable.
After you paste the PivotTable as values, go to the original PivotTable, highlight it, press Format Painter button, and then paint the second PivotTable!
Another method (Two levels Paste):
- Highlight the first PivotTable and copy it.
- Go to another location, and press Ctrl+Alt+V to open the Paste Special dialog box.
- Select Values and then hit OK.
- Press Ctrl+Alt+V again.
- Select Formats and then hit OK again!
You can share a Pivot Table with the formatting without the underlying data.
In the Pivot Table Options, Data Tab, de-select the option "Save source data with the file", you can do this before or after sending the worksheet to a new Workbook that you will use for distribution.
- <<<You can share a Pivot Table with the formatting without the underlying data.....>>>
Regardless of whether the "Save source data with the file" box is checked or not, drill-down is possible... which is what I need to avoid. There are fields in the Pivot that I cannot share with the genpop.... 8-)
