Excel 2024: Replace a Pivot Table with 3 Dynamic Arrays
August 15, 2024 - by Bill Jelen
![Excel 2024: Replace a Pivot Table with 3 Dynamic Arrays Excel 2024: Replace a Pivot Table with 3 Dynamic Arrays](/img/excel-tips/2024/08/excel-2024-replace-a-pivot-table-with-3-dynamic-arrays.jpg)
As the co-author of Pivot Table Data Crunching, I love a good pivot table. But Excel Project Manager Joe McDaid and Excel MVP Roger Govier both pointed out that the three formulas shown here simulate a pivot table and do not have to be refreshed.
To build the report, =SORT(UNIQUE(C2:C392))
provides a vertical list of customers starting in F6. Then, =TRANSPOSE(SORT(UNIQUE(A2:A392)))
provides a horizontal list of products starting in G5.
When you specify F6# and G5# in arguments of SUMIFS
, Excel returns a two-dimensional result: =SUMIFS(D2:D392,C2:C392,F6#,A2:A392,G5#)
.
![Four columns of source data: Product, Date, Customer and Revenue. Headings are in row 1, data is rows 2:392. =SORT(UNIQUE(C2:C392)) gets a vertical sorted list of customers starting in F7. Then, =TRANSPOSE(SORT(UNIQUE(A2:A392))) gets a horizontal list of products in G5. Finally, =SUMIFS(D2:D392,C2:C392,F6#,A2:A392,G5#) in G6 fills in the Revenue amount for each combination of Customer and Product.](/img/content/2024/08/STPA-46.png)
This article is an excerpt from MrExcel 2024 Igniting Excel
Title photo by Lukas Blazek on Unsplash