What happened to Pivot Table view in Access 2013?

Hi Gina,

How many people would know to come to this website to complain about the missing Pivot tables?  There must be many user out there who have suddenly lost some functionality in their system and they probably think it's something they have done wrong.

Small developers like myself find this very frustrating when I have always kept up to date with Microsoft versions, but now I find I have to not only keep the old version but have to insist my clients keep the old version.  And it's hard to obtain an old version now - certainly Microsoft are not offering it - that would be nice!!  I'm being forced into a corner here.

Yes change is hard, but inevitable. The way I read the tea leaves this was a feature that was too costly to maintain and not used enough, and a perfectly good alternative exists in Excel.

Not used enough? How does MSFT know? That's where that "Customer Experience" thing comes in. If you turn that off, MSFT does not know you use Pivot Table all the time and that's one more strike against the feature.

This is ridiculous. I have an entire assignment that deals with pivotcharts and pivottables in access and I will now receive a 0 unless I want to shell out hundreds of dollars for Office 2010. In what way was taking away from the program an improvement? This kind of backwards thinking is way too common with this program. I'm amazed Microsoft isn't in bankruptcy yet.

 unless I want to shell out hundreds of dollars for Office 2010. In what way was taking away from the program an improvement?

I'm amazed Microsoft isn't in bankruptcy yet. 

Your first statement is the answer to your question.  MS limited the functionality as a way of milking more money from customers ..

MS isn't in bankruptcy yet because it takes a LONG time to do that to a company that has billions of dollars of quarterly PROFITS, has billions (trillions?) in assets. That is a huge amount of financial inertia.  Give them a little time, they are working hard at it ... (ribbon, Metro/Win8, Surface ...) They just need a little more practice ...

jeffreycooper,

Hmm, perhaps you inform your instructor that this has been removed from Access 2013 and an updated curriculum is in order.  No sense in learning something that will no value.