How to get the column label in a pivot ?

[chesini]

Hello,

I have a pivot table with column labels YearMonth values (eg 202101, 202102) and row labels CustomerNames. The values in the table are the sales amounts.

To get the maximum value of the monthly sales I add a calculated item MaxSales as an additional column with formula =MAX('202101','202102','202103'). That works perfect and for each CustomerName row I get the MaxSales figure.

Now I try to add another additional column that contains the YearMonth of the MaxSales, in other words that contains the column label value of the month in which the MaxSales is realized.

However, I do not succeed. Is it technically possible or is this a limit of pivot tables ? As Excel knows to find the MaxSales it should know where it found it and should be able to look up and return the associated YearMonth. Does anyone knows the trick to solve this ?

Many thanks.

 

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