I just wanted to share a trick I "discovered" for creating a pivot table from a non-contiguous range. I have reports I run weekly from our company financial system to show Purchase Order (PO) Details; one report per active project (unfortunately). I have a macro that formats, replaces static totals w/ formulas, etc., then it adds a pivot table. It works great ... except for stores that have POs in more than one currency (typically USD and CAD). Those reports come across with a subtotal for the first currency (CAD) in the middle, disturbing the continuity of the pivot table range.
I searched and searched for "create pivot table from non-contiguous range". The only answer I found was NO. So something inspired me to add a new sheet (tab). I named the CAD range (w/ headings) and the USD range (w/o headings) on the original sheet. Then I just put =CAD in cell A2 of the new sheet and it fills that sheet with a "replica" of the CAD range. Then I put =USD in the cell directly below the CAD range on the new sheet. Presto, a "mirror" of the original table, but without the CAD subtotal so it is now contiguous and I create a pivot table from that. Last step after configuring and formatting the pivot table is to hide the "mirror" sheet so it looks to other users like the pivot table is from the original sheet.
I imagine this can also be done with non-contiguous columns, as long as the structure of the data is compatible and when you put them together on the new sheet, you get something that looks like a table and constitutes a contiguous range.
I searched and searched for "create pivot table from non-contiguous range". The only answer I found was NO. So something inspired me to add a new sheet (tab). I named the CAD range (w/ headings) and the USD range (w/o headings) on the original sheet. Then I just put =CAD in cell A2 of the new sheet and it fills that sheet with a "replica" of the CAD range. Then I put =USD in the cell directly below the CAD range on the new sheet. Presto, a "mirror" of the original table, but without the CAD subtotal so it is now contiguous and I create a pivot table from that. Last step after configuring and formatting the pivot table is to hide the "mirror" sheet so it looks to other users like the pivot table is from the original sheet.
I imagine this can also be done with non-contiguous columns, as long as the structure of the data is compatible and when you put them together on the new sheet, you get something that looks like a table and constitutes a contiguous range.
