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Outline and tabular layouts

Outline and tabular layouts - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

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Outline and tabular layouts

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- [Instructor] Alright, this next pro tip is an extremely important one for anyone who works with pivot tables in Excel. I'm going to show you how we can display pivots in different types of table layouts or forms, specifically Outline or Tabular Form. Now, most pivot tables, by default, will show in what's called Compact Form, and that groups all of your row labels together, or nests them, into a single column. So, from your pivot table tool tab, the design group specifically, you'll see a Report Layout dropdown showing your different table layouts or form options, and this is what Compact Form typically looks like by default. We've got one value column here, the average of price, and we have two row labels, a country and a province field. Now the problem is that, in Compact Form, these two fields get kind of nested together, and both live within column A, and that means we have one column header accessible for things like sorting and filtering, and we can't apply our own sorting or…

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