Today’s question is a follow-up to yesterday’s question. How can you make sure that a pivot table shows you one row per day, even if there were no sales on a given day? Episode 592 shows two annoying solutions. If you have a better solution, please send in your ideas to bill @ MrExcel.com.

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Say that you have a pivot table with region and product in the row area. If you would like a blank row between each region, or even a page break between each region, change the Layout properties for the field. Episode 503 shows you how.

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In Excel 2002+, try to create a formula next to your pivot table. When you copy this formula down to other cells, the formula keeps pointing at the original cells! Is this a bug? No, it's a feature! Well, whatever it is, in Episode 377 I will show you how to stop the functionality so that things continue to work like they did back in Excel 2000.

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Instead of creating Pivot Tables, create your summary as a flexible chart. Episode 294 shows you how to create a pivot chart.

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Add a calculated field to a pivot table. Episode 292 shows you how.

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Szilvia from California calls in today with a great question.... How could I have written an entire book on pivot tables and never mentioned the Show Pages feature? We will try it out on today's podcast and I have to admit, it is one of the cooler features in pivot tables. Basically, if you need to create a report for every customer in your database, you can do it with the Show Pages feature in the pivot table. Episode 291 shows you how.

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I use this trick all of the time. Say that you have two versions of a list. You have the current version and an old version. You want to see what changed between the two versions. Rather than try to build complicated VLOOKUP formulas, use a simple pivot table to compare the two lists. Episode 290 shows you how.

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Sometimes you need to take the results of your pivot table to another system. There are a few problems with the default outline view of a pivot table. First - the subtotal rows can get in the way, particularly when you have two or more fields in the row area. Episode 288 will show you how to remove subtotals from from a field.

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While pivot tables are incredibly powerful, they generally look absolutely horrible. Rather than continuously formatting the pivot table after every change, you can use the Pivot Table AutoFormats on the pivot table toolbar. Episode 285 shows you how.

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If you are trying to plan inventory in the warehouse or material scheduling at the manufacturing plant, you will want to create an order leadtime report. Episode 284 shows how to use a pivot table with two dates grouped up to months.

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What if you need to group your daily dates up to weeks? There is not a weekly option in the Group dialog but, Episode 282 shows you how.

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If your pivot table shows data by days, it is just a couple of clicks to transform the pivot table into a monthly report. Episode 281 shows you how. As a bonus - a new tip that is not in the book - how to create a year-over-year comparison report by month.

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Pivot Tables look horrible when you try to add two fields to the pivot table data area. Episode 280 will show you the four different ways to display pivot tables with two data fields.

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Yes - you can have multiple fields in the data area of a pivot table - fields like quantity, revenue, and cost. There are some subtle changes to moving fields, removing fields, and sequencing fields. Episode 279 will show you how.

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All of the pivot tables lately have been showing the total of the data fields. It is easy to show Min, Max, Average, Count, Standard Deviation or Variance - anything except Median. Episode 278 will show you how to create a pivot table with averages.

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Skip the whole wizard and create a pivot table in just a few clicks. Episode 277 shows you how.

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What if you need to produce a report for each region or each customer? Pivot Tables can help. Episode 274 shows you how.

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Another hidden option allows you to have the pivot table calculate the top 5, 10, or 12 customers. Watch Episode 273 for cool Excel Pivot Table options to produce a report of the best (or worst) customers.

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Once you have three or more fields in a pivot table in Excel, you have several options on how to display the data. In Episode 270, I'll show you how to use the Show and Hide buttons to quickly expand a field.

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How to add or remove fields to a pivot table in Excel. Episode 269 shows you how.

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If you pull out your copy of John M. Nelson's The Elements of Spreadsheet Style, he tells you that you should never leave blank cells in the middle of a range. Fill the blank cells with zeroes. This is spreadsheet style 101. Unfortunately, Microsoft breaks this rule in many pivot tables. Episode 268 shows you the hidden setting to fill those blanks with zeroes.

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Pivot tables don't automatically update. Episode 267 will explain why and how to solve this.

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They say that every data set has errors. Once you are able to summarize those 50,000 rows to a 5 line summary, people start spotting all kinds of errors. Wait a second! We never sold that product to this customer! You can double click to view the detail behind any pivot table cell. Episode 266 shows you how.

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There is an annoying limitation when you try to insert new rows in a pivot table. Episode 265 shows you the limitation and walks through how to solve it.

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How to change an existing pivot table. Episode 264 shows you how.

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You have 50,000 rows of transactional data and you need to produce a 3 line summary. Use a pivot table to solve this problem with just a few clicks. Episode 263 will walk you through creating your first pivot table.

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