Note: the source data contains data for an entire year, but the pivot table is filtered to show only the first 6 months of the year, January through June.
Fields
The source data contains three fields: Issue, Date, and Priority. All three fields are used to create the pivot table:
The Date field has been added as a Row field and grouped by month:
The Priority field has been added as a Column field. The Issue field has been added as a Value field and renamed “Count” for clarity. Because Issue contains text field, the calculation is automatically set to Count:
COUNTIFS alternative
As an alternative to a pivot table, you can use the COUNTIFS function to count by month, as seen in this example.
Steps
Notes
Author
Dave Bruns
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