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Grouping by other factors

Grouping by other factors

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Grouping by other factors

- In addition to Grouping data by Date in the Pivot Table you can also come up with your own Groupings. We're looking at a worksheet called OtherGrouping it's in our workbook called 14 - PivotTables. And we've got some data here and we got our Region broken out, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest. And someone is asking us, "Can you come up with a Total for the East?" "Can we see this in the PivotTable?" Well, we don't really have any Eastern Region. We have the Northeast and the Southeast. First of all, let's put these together. Now, we don't need to highlight this data here if we want to move it next to Northeast, all we need to do is to select its label and then drag the bottom edge leftward. And the numbers below that, the 284, the 214, and so on will follow this as I drag just that Cell that contains the SE. Drag it over here to the left, let go of the left mouse button. And now they're adjacent to one another. We can highlight these two Cells right here, the NE and the…

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