Pivot "row hide menu" keeps having items I don't have anymore!?!?

[atarumorooka]

Hello, my excel file manages expences and has columns for date, amount,
account and type of expence. This one for example had values like
clothes, food, toys and so on.
As I understand the pivot "row hide menu" gets items from the data
page values so I'll find correctly clothes, food, toys....and I can
select on or more of them to be displayed in my pivot.

PROBLEM: The question is...when I cancel all the expences for food I
expect to have "food" item cancelled also from the hide menu...but it
keeps staying there and that is very annoying because I suppose the
number of items will increase with the time to an amount hard to
manage.

The page field has a property to hide the items from the "hide menu"
drop down list while the row and column fields haven't.

Any idea how to hide items or update them so to automatically sync with
the values of the main sheet?

English is not my language but I hope I was clear enough to make you
understand what is my question!!!!

Thank you,
Ataru

 

[atarumorooka]

Done it!!! No way...here I found another post
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...de+pivot+items+field&rnum=11#dcf5ae5843cc04b7
with someone having the same problem but it was Office 97!!!
I am using Office 2003 and this error is still there....isn't it???
Tks,
Ataru

 

[atarumorooka]

And even the code posted on Microsoft anyway doesn't solve the
problem...maybe that was written for O97 and not for O2003.
No solution!??!!?? I wonder why because that must be a common problem
people may have using the pivot table.
I wonder.....!
Ataru

 

[Debra Dalgleish]

In Excel 2002 and Excel 2003 you can programmatically change a setting
to prevent old items from appearing. There is sample code here:

http://www.contextures.com/xlPivot04.html

 

[atarumorooka]

Debra, thank you for the help...that is great. I still wonder why that
feature (for me a problem) is still there in Excel 2003.
Hope won't be in the next release.
Ataru