When you create your Pivot Table on certain columns of data, Excel will default to COUNT rather than the required SUM function. Reason No. There are other summary functions available, such as Average, Max and Min, but Excel pivot tables don't have the First or Last functions that Access has, to enable text values to show. And the pivotTable is created. When you have a pivot table that counts instead of sums, it is caused by one of three reasons. Step 5: From the âAnalyze tab,â choose the option of âFields, Items & Setsâ and select the âCalculated fieldsâ of the Pivot Table. 1: There Are One or More Blank Cells in the Column Excel expects your numeric data to be 100% numeric. Regards "Michael" wrote: if you right click the data in the pivot table and choose field settings you can change the sum to average. #3 checked Fields in Choose fields to add to report section in PivotTable Fields pane. As you have seen in the previous section when you drag and drop an item in the Value field, it automatically shows the sum of the value. A pivot table created from a well-formed dataset will automatically sum the numeric fields. We can also use a built-in feature to calculate differences in a pivot table. Is this what you want? Step 4: After the pivot table is inserted, then go to the âAnalyse tabâ that will be present only if the pivot table is selected. Introduction. #1 select the source data B1:C5, and go to INSER tab, click PivotTable command under Tables group to create a pivot table. I have many columns in the Values Box. It is easy enough to change the function from COUNT to SUM but is there a way to default the data to SUM in the Pivot Table?. And the Create PivotTable dialog will open. Right-click on the Pivot Table and select Summarize Value By > Count. Usually you can only show numbers in a pivot table values area, even if you add a text field there.By default, Excel shows a count for text data, and a sum for numerical data. Add Custom Calculations. Excel will either default to summing or counting the field data but you can choose from 11 different functions that include min, max and StdDev as well as the more common Sum, count and Average. "Co-op Bank" wrote: Hello, I have a list of data with three columns, these are 'Period', 'Area' and 'Cost'. Hi All: Do you know how to set up DEFAULT as "Average of values" in Pivot table rather than changing the field setting one by one from "Count of Values" to "Avg of values"? Now the Pivot Table is ready. The summarization has now changed from Sum to Count Pivot Table. Do you think if the only way is VBA coding. 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