Remove (blank) from pivot table

Anonymous
2011-02-25T12:16:56+00:00

Hi,

My source data has empty cells.  When I PT this data - the PT shows "(blank)" for the empty cells.  How can I keep the cells "empty" in the PT.  I do not want to manually filter and uncheck (blank) as this removes other data which is needed.

TIA,

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Anonymous
2011-02-25T14:15:06+00:00

Excel 2007/2010 PivotTable

Show blank cell instead of (blank)

in RowField/ColumnField item labels.

http://c3017412.r12.cf0.rackcdn.com/01_23_11.xlsx

If you get *.zip, don't unzip, just rename *.xlsx

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-08-03T19:27:23+00:00

    Looking at your example has prompted me to ask how is it possible to have 2 pivot tables on the same sheet using the same source data.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-02-12T22:27:27+00:00

    And almost a year later, another amazed and happy PT user...what a great little workaround. (And where is it that you can set an option to ignore 'blanks'? I know I've seen it somewhere...) Any way, thanks

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  3. Ashish Mathur 102.4K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2012-02-13T00:51:10+00:00

    Hi,

    If you do not wish to change the source data, then try this

    1. Select the pivot table (Ctrl+A while on any cell in the pivot table)
    2. Press Ctrl+H
    3. In the Find box, type (blank)
    4. In the Replace with box, type '
    5. Click on Replace All

    Hope this helps.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-04-26T13:09:21+00:00

    Hi,

    I figured a workaround which you might be interested in. In essence it involves masking the string (blank) with white color fonts using conditional formating. Needs to be done one time only upon the whole sheet or PT or range of cells.

    1. select the whole sheet/ table/ range of cells
    2. select [Conditional Formatting] -> [New Formatting Rule]
    3. in the [New Formatting Rule] dialog window

    select [Format only cells that contain]

    under the [Format only cells with:] select [Cell Value] from the drop-down list - actually it is selected by default ; select [equal to] from the drop-down list next; type (blank) in the third box 

    1. then press the [Format] button to set the format
    2. it opens another dialog window about formatting
    3. select [Fonts] tab (it is the default one)
    4. select white color for fonts
    5. OK and OK again and you've done it :)

    In this way, (blank) will not visually annoy you and the same time you don't mess with cells contents.

    Hope to have been of help

    ******@abv.bg

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