Excel PivotTable Month Comparison [Video]

In this last tutorial, in my 3 part series on PivotTable tips and tricks, I’m going to show you how to include the month on month change. In the example below we can see that beverage sales in Feb were $10,391 less than the previous month, and in March they were $4,622 less than February:

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Written Instructions - How to Add Comparison to Previous Month

1. Add 2 'Sales' fields to the Values area like in the image below. The second one will be the difference from previous month.

2. Select any cell in the PivotTable for Sum of Sales2 and right click and select 'Value Field Settings'.

3. On the 'Show Values As' tab select 'Difference From' from the list, and choose 'Month' from the Base Field, and '(previous)' from the Base item, like this:

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