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The tutorial on dashboard was wonderful and quite effective for understanding local Covid 19 cases.

However when I try to group by dates, for instance a 7-day period, the pivot table treats the values purely as numbers instead of days.

I would love any help in managing this behavior I will attach the worksheet and images.

 

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Hi Daniel,

1 - Right click on one of the dates in the PT

2 - Click on Group in the pop-up menu

3 - In the Grouping dialog box click on Days - make sure it's the only one highlighted

4 - In 'Number of days' enter 7

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Phil

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Thanks Philip, I'd tried this before posting. 

However there is a solution

So for anyone with this challenge, pls click a cell in your pivot table
Select sort
Select more options
Select Manual(you can drag items to rearrange them)
Group your data again

Voila, now you owe me a cold beer.

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Hi Daniel,

The PivotTable shouldn't need manual sorting for dates. It should work as Phil explained.

I looked at your file and there are some underlying sort rules applied that are conflicting with the date sort order. You should fix these by building a new PivotTable so that it sorts as designed. Maintaining a manual sort order isn't ideal.

Mynda

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