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brandonday
Jan 27, 2022Copper Contributor
Pivot Tables: Trying to populate text but it populates "count of" or "sum of"
Hi, I'm trying to make pivot tables in Excel office 365 on mac os 11.5.2 but when I click on a something like, month, first name, last name, it defaults to "count of month", "count of first name" I c...
SergeiBaklan
Jan 27, 2022Diamond Contributor
Not sure I understood an issue. PowerPivot allows only to count texts if you add such field to Values. You may add text field for rows or columns, no aggregation is such case.
brandonday
Jan 27, 2022Copper Contributor
In Values it only let's me chose things like, count, sum, average, product etc... the youtube video I'm watching when they click on last name it shows their last name not count of last name or sum of last name. Seems like I need to do something but I can't find what to do so when I click on "First" the first name populates not the "count of the first name".
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- Riny_van_EekelenJan 27, 2022Platinum Contributor
brandonday Excel for the Mac supports only "regular" pivot tables. Numerical values can be summarised in many different ways. Texts, on the other hand, can only be counted when dragged into the value area. Not sure which videos you have watched, but they can't have been dealing with Excel for Mac.
- brandondayJan 28, 2022Copper Contributor
Thank you for the information.
Uunderstood the limitations of Mac Excel and the video I am watching is not Mac.
Aappreciate the feed back. Riny_van_Eekelen