PivotTable shows empty columns with "< 21/22/2016" as heading

Beemerang

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Hi All,

I'm using PivotTables for the first time after years of manually generating reports and while I can see how powerful they can be, it's driving me nuts figuring out how everything works. I did do a couple of searches before posting but perhaps I am not using the correct search term as I found nothing related to my query.

I have a fairly simple list upon which I have based a PivotTable. Everything calculates fine but I have two columns appearing in the PivotTable to the right of the column that contains the year's subtotal with a header in the first column that says "<21/11/2016" and in the cell below it "(blank)" and another column to right of this one with the header "<21/11/2016 Total" and below that a blank cell.

Now I know that the date 21/11/2016 (UK format) is the date of the first list entry. The line directly above the first entry is the heading row. No rows are hidden. There are no list entries with a date that is prior to 21/11/2016 so I have no idea why these columns appear.

How can I prevent these columns from appearing every time the PivotTable us updated? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Regards,
Beem
 
JERRY, YOU'RE A GENIUS!

That did it, there was a blank row included in my dynamic data range. Thank you SO much for not giving up on this and helping me to solve this!

Happy Holidays!!

Beem
 
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