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mkuhnel
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9 years ago
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Making a Slicer from Categories not in a Column

Hello,   Just a quick question about slicers here. I currently have data set up in the following manner:   Month Column | One Measurement | More Measurements | etc   I want to able to use this ...
  • foyiq's avatar
    9 years ago

    You could use unpivoting here. Choose all the measurement columns, and then unpivot them (Transform>Unpivot Columns), so that the column names go into one column, and another column will contain corresponding values in it. The only thing to remember is that if you had a single row for each month, now you will have several rows for each month. However, this is not an issue for visualizations and slicers, as they group the underlying data.