Now, I'm no Stephen Few, but I'm pretty sure this breaks all kinds of Dashboarding best practices. So, let us learn how to use slicers in excel with the following example. Take a look at this screenshot pulled from the Microsoft website. How To Use/Insert Slicer In Excel Now, we know that slicers in excel are used to filter data. Slicers are huge and they take up lots of real estate. If that audience is still using Excel 2007, they get no love from Slicers. Unlike the other new functions (such as Percent of Subtotals and Repeat Item Labels), Slicers are specifically designed to be used by a reporting audience. Many of the new PivotTable functions such as Slicers will simply not work in Excel 2007. Create your first PivotTable on a workbook and define a Slicer: Click anywhere inside the PivotTable. PivotTable Compatibility is still a major issue with Excel 2010. Mainly because of two reasons:ġ: No Backwards Compatibility with Excel 2007 Filter fields can only control the pivot table in which they live.įor all the advantages that Slicers provide, I personally don't think I will use them that often (if at all). 1) Insert a new column in your spreadsheet and enter the name Slices for this field. Again, slicers have a unique advantage over Filter fields in that they can control the filter state of multiple pivot tables. All field buttons will be saved as enabled. A PivotChart in this workbook has specific field buttons enabled or disabled. At this point, any filter you apply to your slicer will be applied to all the connected pivot tables. What to do In the Compatibility Checker, click Find to locate the PivotTable that contains the settings that are not supported, and then make the necessary changes.
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