I'm stupid - Pivot source data with multiple columns, want columns in rows

[YoBub]

Excel 2016. I have source data for a pivot table across multiple columns. The first column is a date, the subsequent columns are teams, and the values are a count of faxes a team processed, for each day.

I'm trying to create a pivot table in which the dates appear across the top, summarized by month (I've got this) and the total for faxes handled by each team each month runs in rows down the left side.

I've worked with pivot tables extensively and I know I'm just being stupid, but I can't figure out how to make this work. Sleep deprivation. This is killing me.

The source data is 2 years daily across 14 teams, but here is a summary example.

What I have
Date	Team A	Team B	Team C
1/2/2017	11	3	8
1/3/2017	32	10	26
1/4/2017	24	21	26
2/1/2017	35	10	19
2/2/2017	35	20	22
2/3/2017	48	17	20
2/4/2017	4	2	1
What I want
	Jan-17	Feb-17
Team A	67	122
Team B	34	49
Team C	60	62

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Each time I try to lay this out, I either get nested subtotals across the top, or I get values in the left column, instead of team names.

 

[alansidman]

You will need to unpivot your data table as shown below. This can be accomplished using Power Query (Get and Transform) in 2016. Once you have the data in this form, then you can build a Pivot Table.

Data Range

	A​	B​	C​	D​	E​	F​	G​	H​
1​	Date​	Team​	Value​
2​	1/2/17​	Team A​	11​			Sum of Value​	Column Labels​
3​	1/2/17​	Team B​	3​			Row Labels​	Jan​	Feb​
4​	1/2/17​	Team C​	8​			Team A​	67​	122​
5​	1/3/17​	Team A​	32​			Team B​	34​	49​
6​	1/3/17​	Team B​	10​			Team C​	60​	62​
7​	1/3/17​	Team C​	26​
8​	1/4/17​	Team A​	24​
9​	1/4/17​	Team B​	21​
10​	1/4/17​	Team C​	26​
11​	2/1/17​	Team A​	35​
12​	2/1/17​	Team B​	10​
13​	2/1/17​	Team C​	19​
14​	2/2/17​	Team A​	35​
15​	2/2/17​	Team B​	20​
16​	2/2/17​	Team C​	22​
17​	2/3/17​	Team A​	48​
18​	2/3/17​	Team B​	17​
19​	2/3/17​	Team C​	20​
20​	2/4/17​	Team A​	4​
21​	2/4/17​	Team B​	2​
22​	2/4/17​	Team C​	1​
23​

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Open you existing file and click on Data, Get and Transform, From Table. Click on the right three columns. Right click and select Unpivot. Go to the Home Tab in PQ and click on Load and Close. Now you will have your normalized table in a form in which you can build your pivot table. If you are running 2010 or 2013, you can download Power Query for free from Microsoft. It is the way of the future.

 

[YoBub]

Yup, that 100% worked!!! I've never used any of that functionality, so I guess that's the difference between an intermediate user and and expert.

Thanks so much for your help!