Merged cells and Pivot table

[Johan]

I have the following tabel
A B C
Region Customer Product
1 ASIA Custo Apple

Since one customer can have more products and a region more customers I used
in the table mergd cells to keep the overview. However when I am using this
data in my pivot table only the first complete row is stated in the pivit
table. Any ideas how to solve this?

regards

Johan

 

[Bernie Deitrick]

Johan,

Select your table, unmerge all the cells, then use Edit Go To... Special Blanks.

Then press = and either the left arrow(if your merged cells were on the same row) or the up arrow
(if your merged cells were in the same column) and press Ctrl-Enter. Then copy the table and
pastespecial values, and you should be able to use the table as a source for pivot tables.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP