Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Excel 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Excel, click here: Updating Multiple PivotTables at Once.
For certain types of data analysis, PivotTables can be very handy. If you have a workbook that contains several PivotTables, all based on the same data, you may wonder if there is a way to update them all at once, rather than going through them individually and updating them.
There is no Excel command that allows you to update all PivotTables, but you can create a short macro that will do the job for you. The following macro, RefreshAllPivots, steps through each worksheet in a workbook, checks to see if there are any PivotTables, and then updates them if there are.
Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Excel 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Excel, click here: 
Sub RefreshAllPivots()
Dim wks As Worksheet
Dim pt As PivotTable
For Each wks In Worksheets
For Each pt In wks.PivotTables
pt.RefreshTable
Next pt
Next wks
End Sub
If you do a lot of work with multiple PivotTables, you may want to assign the macro to a shortcut key, a toolbar button, or to a menu option so that you can run it easier. (Information on how to assign macros to toolbars, shortcut keys, and menus is covered in other issues of ExcelTips.)
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ExcelTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Excel training. This tip (2287) applies to Microsoft Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. You can find a version of this tip for the ribbon interface of Excel (Excel 2007 and later) here: Updating Multiple PivotTables at Once.
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