Pivot Table - Grand Total for Rows

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Guest

I'm using XL 2002 and I have a pivot table that has "Grand totals for rows"
turned on. This works perfect. However, amongst the rows of data, I have
one row that is static...it simply shows the 'goal' for the respective
column. I don't want that row to show anything in the Grand Total column.
Is there a trick way to defeat the appearance of the Grand Total for just
that row. Goal doesn't need to have any type of calculation performed on
it...it's simply a reference number for the related dat in the its respective
column that it appears in.

Example:

Item Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Grand Total
West 10 20 30 40 100
South 15 25 35 45 120
Goal 5 5 5 5 <---- Have nothing appear here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Debra Dalgleish

You can't turn off the Grand Total for specific items, but you could
format the cell with white font, which would hide it.
 
G

Guest

Thank you Debra for the quick reply. I thought about the white formatting
trick but how would you do it for an 'unknown' number of rows........or do I
have to format them manually each time I refresh the pivot table ie: one day
I may have 10 instances to format and then the next day I may have 35
instances to reformat.
 
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Debra Dalgleish

In your first post you said that it was "one row that is static", so
manual formatting might have worked in that situation.

If it's a variable number of rows, you could apply formatting
programmatically, or experiment with conditional formatting, based on
the row and column headings.
 

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