Calculated Items in an Excel PivotTable

Posted on: 03/25/2022

Excel PivotTables have calculated fields and calculated items. In this video, I will take a field called Year, which has 2022 and 2021 in it and create a calculated item. In case you are wondering, what is the difference between a calculated field and a calculated item? That is easy to explain. Your data has a header row that contains fields. The items in the field are items.

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Video Chapters

0:00 Introduction
0:17 Calculated field and items explained
1:26 Insert Pivot Table
2:25 Number format
2:57 Calculated Item
4:42 Add percentages - TIP

Example of a Calculated Item

If you were tracking employees, you could have a field called Department. Listed below department is Accounting, Marketing, Sales, Customer Service. Those four are items, but the department is the field.

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