In order to connect the second one as well, we need to check it and click ok: Image 10. On the pop-up screen, we can see that only the first pivot table is connected to the slicer. Connecting the slicer with the second pivot table To the same Month slicer, we need to click on the slicer and choose the “ReportĬonnections” button from the Options tab under the Slicer Tools: Image 9. The results from the data source, regardless of the slicer values selected,īecause it’s not connected to any slicer. The second pivot table currently displays all The second pivot table – Sum of sales per product First, we will create another pivot table from the same data table, which will display the sum of sales per product: Image 8.
#How to connect slicer to pivot table how to#
In the next example, we will see how to enable this. Connecting a Slicer with Multiple Pivot TablesĪs we explained in the introduction, slicers can filter multiple pivot tables at once, if they contain the same filter field. In our example slicer, the pivot table shows January and February. Using the slicer for filtering the multiple monthsĪs you can see in the picture, the “Multi-Select” button is now colored in yellow and filtered values are highlighted with blue. Enabling multi selection on the SlicerĪfter we enable multi-selection, we want to display the sum of Sales for January and February, so we will choose these two months in the slicer: Image 7. We can enable multi selection by clicking on the “Multi-Select” button in the Slicer. The filter is by defaul enabled to choose only one item. To see more design options for the layout, such as size, styles and text, we need to click on the slicer and choose the Options tab under Slicer Tools. Months from the pivot table, as shown in Image 5: Image 5. Choose a field for SlicerĪs a result, we get the slicer with all the On the pop-up screen we need to choose a field that we want to filter, in our case “Month”, and click OK: Image 4. To insert a slicer, we need to click anywhere on the pivot table, choose the Analyze tab in the PivotTable Tools and click on the “Insert Slicer” button: Image 3. Now we want to filter our pivot table by month, using a slicer. The result is a pivot table shown in Image 2: Image 2. In the pivot table we want to present the sum of sales per month, so we put field “Month” in Rows and field “Sales” in Values. We created a pivot table based on this table. The table consists of 3 columns: “Month” (column B), “Product” Our table represents the sum of sales per monthĪnd product. The table with data for creating the pivot table First, let’s look at the table which we will use for creating the pivot table: Image 1. We will now explain based on an example how to insert a slicer into the pivot table. Multiple pivot tables with a single slicer. To multiple tables containing the same field. To filter only one field in one pivot table, while the slicer can be connected We will look into this further later on in the tutorial.
Slicers, with their user-friendly layout, enable us to see what items are selected.
#How to connect slicer to pivot table pdf#
This is not very useful if a table needs to be printed or shared in a presentation or a PDF document.
When we filter multiple items, we can’t see which items are selected, unless we click on the drop-down menu.
For example, if we have fields Country and City and filter one country with a standard filter, we will still have a possibility to filter all the cities, even the ones not belonging to the filtered country.
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