Excel 2020: Replace a Pivot Table with 3 Dynamic Arrays
October 01, 2020 - by Bill Jelen
As the co-author of Pivot Table Data Crunching, I love a good pivot table. But Excel Project Manager Joe McDaid and Excel MVP Roger Govier both pointed out that the three formulas shown here simulate a pivot table and do not have to be refreshed.
To build the report, =SORT(UNIQUE(C2:C392))
provides a vertical list of customers starting in F6. Then, =TRANSPOSE(SORT(UNIQUE(A2:A392)))
provides a horizontal list of products starting in G5.
When you specify F6# and G5# in arguments of SUMIFS, Excel returns a two-dimensional result: =SUMIFS(D2:D392,C2:C392,F6#,A2:A392,G5#)
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Title Photo: Nazar Sharafutdinov at Unsplash.com
This article is an excerpt from MrExcel 2020 - Seeing Excel Clearly.