Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Using a Pivot Table to count unique records

Pivot tables have always had a major problem- when you try to count unique records, it will give you the total number of records.

Example: say you have a database of service records, including service provider name and state. If you wanted to determine how many service providers are in a particular state, a pivot table would instead give you the total number of records for that state, even if you had service provider set as a count.

Until now!

Starting with Excel 2013, there's a workaround to get the actual unique value count.

http://datapigtechnologies.com/blog/index.php/distinct-count-in-pivot-tables-finally-in-excel-2013/

Search terms and phrases:
Unique count pivot table Excel
Distinct count pivot table

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