While slicers are amazing & fun, often you may want to use them outside pivot table framework. Capturing slicer selection using formulas You can examine this chart in detail in the Slicer ExamplesВ workbook. You can use the same approach to link one slicer to more than one chart (pivot chart or regular one). Now both pivot tables will respond to the slicer. Right click on the slicer and go to Report Connections (in Excel 2010, this is called as PivotTable connections).This can be confusing once you have more than a few pivot tables. If you donвЂ™t name your pivot tables, Excel will give them default names like PivotTable73.To name the pivot tables, click anywhere in the pivot, go to Analyze ribbon and use the pivot table name field on top-left to give it a name. Optional:В Give names to each of the pivot tables.To connect multiple pivot tables to single slicer, follow these steps. This allows us to build very powerful, cross-filtered & interactive reports using Excel. You can also link a single slicer to any number of pivot reports. Linking one slicer to multiple pivot tables When you add multiple slicers, each of them plays a role in telling the pivot table what sub-set of data to use for calculating the numbers. You can add any number of slicers to a pivot report. Linking multiple slicers to same Pivot report Move slicer next to the chart and format everything to your taste.Create a pivot chart (or even regular chart) from the pivot table data.Add slicer for interaction on any field (say slicer on customerвЂ™s region).Set up a pivot table that gives you the data for your chart.Since slicers talk to Pivot tables, you can use them to create cool interactive charts in Excel. You can also click on the вЂњcheckboxвЂќ icon in slicer header to multi-select items in slicers.If the items you want are not together, hold CTRL key and click on one at a time.If the items you want are together, just drag from first item to last.You can select a single item or multiple items in slicers. Use either analyze or insert ribbon to add the slicer.Right click on pivot table field you want and choose вЂњadd as slicerвЂќ.

To add a slicer, you can do either of these things: To add a slicer to regular table, use Insert ribbon > Insert Slicer button. When you add a slicer to regular Excel tables, they just act like auto-filters and filter your table data. In Excel 2013 and above, you can add a slicer to either pivot tables or regular tables. or OptionsВ ribbon (PivotTable Tools) and click on Insert SlicerДЄdding a slicer in Excel 2013 / 2016 / 2019 / 365:.Insert ribbon and click on Insert Slicer.In Excel 2010, you can add a slicer only to pivot tables. Note: Slicers are available only in Excel 2010 and above. It contains all the examples shown in this post and a fun surprise too. Please click here to download slicer examples demo workbook. This post is very long and has many examples. See it below or head to my YouTube channel. If are just getting started with this AWESOME feature, you must watch the video, NOW. Here is a quick 5 minute video tutorial on Slicers. With slicers, it is a matter of simple click. With a report filter (or any other filter), you will have to click several times to pick one store. Add a slicer on regionВ and click on the regionВ you want.Add regionВ as report filter and filter for the regionВ you want.There are 2 options for you do drill down to an individual regionВ level. And you want to see how the sales are for a particular region.

Slicers are visual filters.В Using a slicer, you canВ filter your data (or pivot table, pivot chart) by clicking on the type of data you want.ДЇor example, letвЂ™s say you are looking at sales by customer profession in aВ pivot report. And here is a quick demo to show why they are my favorite. SlicersВ are one of my favorite feature in Excel.

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