What is a general technique for handling the
follow situation?

I use pivot tables and pivot charts to analyze
a dataset. Each week, the dataset's
record count increases (thus the rows the
pivot table uses expands).

I want to avoid manually re-building the pivot
table and pivot charts each week and would like the
pivot table's range to expand automatically to
include all records.

It appears using named ranges in the
pivot table definition is not allowed. Also, I want to
avoid using macros if possible.

If you are not looking for a Macro solution then perhaps the programming area
is not the best place to post. That being sid it can be done without macros
so that would have been my suggested solution anyways... Check out this
link...

http://www.contextures.com/xlPivot01.html
--
HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"Allenx" wrote:

> What is a general technique for handling the
> follow situation?
>
> I use pivot tables and pivot charts to analyze
> a dataset. Each week, the dataset's
> record count increases (thus the rows the
> pivot table uses expands).
>
> I want to avoid manually re-building the pivot
> table and pivot charts each week and would like the
> pivot table's range to expand automatically to
> include all records.
>
> It appears using named ranges in the
> pivot table definition is not allowed. Also, I want to
> avoid using macros if possible.
>
>
>

Define the pivot table using the entire column instead of specific rows and
then turn off the value "(blank)"

Peter Richardson

"Allenx" wrote:

> What is a general technique for handling the
> follow situation?
>
> I use pivot tables and pivot charts to analyze
> a dataset. Each week, the dataset's
> record count increases (thus the rows the
> pivot table uses expands).
>
> I want to avoid manually re-building the pivot
> table and pivot charts each week and would like the
> pivot table's range to expand automatically to
> include all records.
>
> It appears using named ranges in the
> pivot table definition is not allowed. Also, I want to
> avoid using macros if possible.
>
>
>

That will work so long as you are not trying to group the data by date as
blanks will prevent the grouping...
--
HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"barnabel" wrote:

> Define the pivot table using the entire column instead of specific rows and
> then turn off the value "(blank)"
>
> Peter Richardson
>
> "Allenx" wrote:
>
> > What is a general technique for handling the
> > follow situation?
> >
> > I use pivot tables and pivot charts to analyze
> > a dataset. Each week, the dataset's
> > record count increases (thus the rows the
> > pivot table uses expands).
> >
> > I want to avoid manually re-building the pivot
> > table and pivot charts each week and would like the
> > pivot table's range to expand automatically to
> > include all records.
> >
> > It appears using named ranges in the
> > pivot table definition is not allowed. Also, I want to
> > avoid using macros if possible.
> >
> >
> >