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How to add two columns in pivot table (Excel)

I am trying to find a way to have two categorical variables in a pivot table? (instead of a drop down within the same column) The way that it automatically works is not really practical to futher manipulate the data and it seems like such a simple feature I hope it must exist somewhere in the pivot table settings.

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Thanks!

I tried adding my second categrical variable as column but it just created many columns for each of the categories for my variable, instead of filling the column with the categories.

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Solution

  • Change the following options under Design > Report Layout:

    • Show in Tabular Form
    • Repeat All Item Labels

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