Kathy is having problems creating nested subtotals in Excel. It seems that when she thinks she has it right, she ends up with disorganized subtotals, with the subtotals being after the grand total.
This problem seems to be a known issue to the folks at Microsoft; it has affected users of both Excel 2002 and Excel 2003. The problem and its solution is discussed in this Knowledge Base article:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=831824
In short, you can fix the problem in Excel 2002 and Excel 2003 by downloading a hotfix or service pack.(You can also do a Registry edit to effect a fix.)
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2018-07-17 16:07:00
Benny
Hi Allen,
FYI, I've seen mentions of this for more recent versions of Office than you list (more recent than 2002 and 2003).
Today I've experienced this bug in my copy of Office 2016 32Bit for Windows 10 Home 64bit.
I have a sizable table of ~25 columns and ~3.5K rows. If I delete a bunch of rows and then subtotal twice, they nest correctly. If I do not delete the rows, the "nested subtotals" are broken as you've described.
I'm hunting for any special values/rows which may be causing it, but otherwise I think it may just be table-size which breaks this.
I'm desperate for a solution, if anyone hears how to consistently/reliably get proper nested subtotals in Excel 2016.
Thanks,
-Benny
P.S. Just FYI the Knowledge Base link is broken.
Don't feel bad, as it looks like 90% of the internet's links to Knowledge Base have been broken (even their own Support search results).
2016-06-22 15:39:50
elaines03`
I am having issues in Excel 2010 also with Nesting subtotals. Not all the time but sometimes the last item total in a sub group will fall below the grand total
2016-06-05 21:28:23
yodayoda
And I'm still seeing the problem in Excel 2010. Has anyone found a solution that REALLY works?
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