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Hide the base year in a variance chart
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Tracy Kirkman Johnson
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March 25, 2019 - 9:14 pm
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Hi Mynda,

 

I have a pivot table where I have used "% Difference From" to show the variance from previous year.  When I chart this, I am seeing the previous year in the chart, which is obviously all blank.  How can I hide the base year from the chart so that I only see the difference columns?

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Tracy

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Hi Tracy,

You can't with a Pivot Chart. Basically what you see in the PivotTable gets plotted in the Pivot Chart and you need the base year for the % Difference From.

The workarounds/options are to use Power Pivot PivotTables and charts which allow you to write measures for the % Difference From calculation that doesn't require the Previous Year data in the PivotTable itself. Or, create a regular chart from the PivotTable as described here, which allows you to exclude certain columns.

Mynda

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Thanks Mynda, I will try writing a measure in powerpivot, but still busy with the course.

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