Insert or move a field into Pivot table without drag and drop

If you do Pivot Table, the following won’t be a stranger to you as you must do a lot drag and drop to pivot.

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But did you know that you may insert a field name and / or  swap the position of field name in the layout of a Pivot table by directly input?  See below:  

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Tip: Try the same for swapping position of items.

Nevertheless, be extremely careful of typing.  Make sure you type the field name 100% correct, including invisible space(s) if any.  Otherwise, Excel considers you are going to rename the field name instead.  See demonstration below?!

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By the way, we still need to use mouse drag and drop at the very beginning to create the first Report/Row/Column labels for this trick to work… Unless you are a keyboard guru and know how to do that without mouse,  or consider reading my post about F6 for hints in doing that. 🙂

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2 Responses to Insert or move a field into Pivot table without drag and drop

  1. Doug Glancy says:

    Hi there. I just stumbled onto these tricks last week. I was going to do a blog post, but this one is very nice, as is the one on Contextures.

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