recycling pivot table - reduce size

shodan

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Hey board,

I have a question on pivot tables.
I'm trying to re-use my last years pivot table. It contained 12 months of data, coming from a seperate excel sheet. Now I've copied the complete folder, renamed it, and deleted the 2008 data and replaced it with 2months of 2009. If I than change my data source and refresh the table, the size remains the same as with the complete 2008 data. However, If I rebuild the pivot, the size drops from 8mega to 1mega. Can anyone explain me what I can do to avoid this? the pivot only contain column references, and I checked my blank rows, and there is no hidden data left.

Regards,
shodan
 

Excel Facts

Select all contiguous cells
Pressing Ctrl+* (asterisk) will select the "current region" - all contiguous cells in all directions.
In the pivot table options try unchecking the Save Data with Table Layout option and then saving the file.

If you leave it unchecked I think you will need to refresh your pivot table each time you open the file but you should just be able to re-apply it with your new data in place.

Dom
 
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