Fields
The source data contains three fields: Date, Sales, and Color. Only two fields are used to create the pivot table: Date and Color.
The Color field has been added as a Row field to group data by color. The Color field has also been added as a Value field, and renamed “Count”:
The Date field has been added as a Column field and grouped by month:
Helper column alternative
As an alternative to automatic date grouping, you can add a helper column to the source data, and use a formula to extract the year. Then add the Year field to the pivot table directly.
COUNTIFS alternative
As an alternative to a pivot table, you can use the COUNTIFS function to count by month, as seen in this example.
Steps
Notes
Author
Dave Bruns
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