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The validation list has at least four problems. Then, in this example, you’d set up a MATCH formula in your FigNum cell to return 1, 2, or 3-depending on which of the items you chose in your validation list. When you choose OK, your active cell will contain a dropdown list box with the choices in your list. Next, in the dialog, you choose Settings, Allow: List, and then you specify that three-cell list as the Source. Then you choose Data, Data Tools, Data Validation, Data Validation to launch the Data Validation dialog. You select a cell where you want the dropdown list box to reside. When you set up a validation list, you first set up the list of choices you want to offer your user.įor example, you could set up a list with Bar Chart, Line Chart, and Table in three adjacent cells. On the other hand, the validation list control is used widely. They’ve not been updated in years, and Microsoft never talks about them. To see form controls, in the Developer, Controls group, choose Insert.įorm controls might not officially be deprecated, but they’re on their way. In years past, I might have used a form control to control this figure.

Now, in this article, I’m going explain how I set up the slicer to change that setting, rather than using a validation list control or a form control. In Interactive Dashboard Magic with Excel Slicers, I explained how to display one of three figures when you enter the values 1, 2, or 3 in a cell. If you select an item in a slicer, both pivot tables will be filtered.įor example, in the screen shot below, both pivot tables are showing East region sales, for Desk and Pen orders.įor more pivot table Slicer tips, and to get the sample file for this example, go to the pivot table Slicer page on my Contextures website.The figure below is using Slicers to control a setting in a workbook, a setting that tells Excel’s Camera tool which of three images to return: a bar chart, a line chart, or a table. In the Filter Connections window, add a check mark to each Slicer that you want the pivot table to connect toīoth pivot tables are now connected to the Slicer.On the Excel Ribbon’s Analyze tab, click Filter Connections.

Select a cell in the second pivot table.

To create the Slicer connection in the second pivot table: If you create multiple pivot tables from the same pivot cache, you can connect them to the same slicers, and filter all the pivot tables at the same time. Then, to filter the pivot table, click on an item in the Slicer. The Slicers appear on the worksheet, and you can resize them and move them, if necessary.

Add check marks to the fields for which you want to add Slicers.

On the Analyze tab of the Ribbon, click Insert Slicer.

There are lots of pivot table Slicer tips on my Contextures website. Pivot Table Slicers were added in Excel 2010, and they’re a quick and easy way to filter the data in a pivot table. NOTE: If you’re using Excel 2010, follow the steps in this video instead: