Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated June 25, 2018)
This tip applies to Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
Shairal develops PivotTables on a daily basis, using various data sources such as Excel lists, Access tables, and OLAP data. One of the most irritating things he deals with is suppressing the automatic subtotal function on each field, one at a time. This can be time consuming depending on the number of fields he's used. Shairal wondered if it might be easier to use a macro to suppress the subtotals for all the fields at once.
The answer is that it would be easier to use a macro. (That is what macros are for—to take care of the tedious things you tire of.) Rather than reinvent the wheel, however, a good solution is to consider the following code, adapted from Microsoft MVP Debra Daglisesh's site:
Sub NoSubtotals() 'turns off subtotals in pivot table '.PivotFields could be changed to '.RowFields or .ColumnFields Dim pt As PivotTable Dim pf As PivotField On Error Resume Next For Each pt In ActiveSheet.PivotTables For Each pf In pt.PivotFields 'First, set index 1 (Automatic) to True, 'so all other values are set to False pf.Subtotals(1) = True pf.Subtotals(1) = False Next pf Next pt End Sub
Just display the PivotTable you want to affect, and then run the macro. The subtotals for all the fields in the PivotTable are suppressed at once. The original for this code is available here, at Debra's site:
http://www.contextures.com/xlPivot03.html#Subtotals
The site also contains some other good information for working with PivotTables.
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2020-07-04 06:09:24
O.Ezeakile
Thanks a lot.
2019-11-26 14:17:34
Denis
Nice cod bro. Thanks a lot.
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