What happened to Pivot Table view in Access 2013?

Anonymous
2013-03-31T17:57:35+00:00

I cannot see this feature in Access 2013...was it really discontinued?

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-12-08T23:18:17+00:00

    I agree you have to talk to your instructor for a work around.

    I don't agree that learning this function is of no value. Maybe MS will get the message and return the functionality (hey, I heard that big belly laugh!  Well, it could happen ... <grin>  ). And you never know if you will be using 2010 at work.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-02-03T03:52:44+00:00

    Wow.  This is like a bad joke.  Now I can't complete my Business Analytics class project because my version of Access dropped a useful, common database feature.

    Honestly, this makes no sense.  Why remove an already-existing feature, whether the creators thought it was important or not?  That's just poor decision-making.  You never throw away what you've already developed unless it's defective or you have a superior replacement.

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  3. Tom van Stiphout 40,216 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-02-03T14:20:56+00:00

    Ah, but you are creative enough to smoothly export your data to Excel switch to it for pivoting, just like MSFT expects that you will.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-02-03T22:31:43+00:00

    Tom, I don't want to rely on Excel.  I have perfectly good systems in Access 2007 that product fantastic pivot charts dynamically and I don't want to change that in any way. 

    As another developer put it, the good facility was there, why not keep it.

    Mark

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  5. Tom van Stiphout 40,216 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-02-04T03:09:04+00:00

    Maybe I should have been more clear:

    * Because a superior version exists in another MSFT tool (Excel) and maintaining both seems wasteful

    * Because even maintaining a feature throughout the versions requires manpower which we like to pour into the web features

    * Because data from the Customer Experience program tells us few people use it.

    There are several other features cut from A2013 that fall in this category. I understand you don't like it, but there is a rationale, and there is a path forward.

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