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Can I create an "Average" column that only applies to the "Grand Total" column, not all the other columns in my pivot table? If so, how?

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(@johnsonmd)
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  • I take my daily inputs for Column 1 Date, Column 2 Source, and Column 3 Count of source events. 
  • I create a pivot table where my dates are the columns and my sources are the rows. 
  • I sum the counts and get a table that shows the daily counts for each source and a total by source for the month.  (So far, so good!)
  • I also want to show the average for each source for ONLY the whole month. 
    • For the rest of my table, I only want the daily sum, not a daily sum and a daily average.
    • When I put both "sum" and "average" in my values quadrant for the pivot table, the result gives sum and average values for each day in addition to the grand total columns.
  • How should I do this? 
    • PS, if I probably need to switch the table so that dates are my "rows", I'm ok with that, but I still have the same question....
    • PSS, if this is covered in the videos somewhere, can you please provide me the lesson number(s)?
    • Thanks in advance!
 
Posted : 29/09/2016 12:57 pm
(@mynda)
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Hi Marilyn,

Not quite, but this post might give you an acceptable solution: http://www.powerpivotpro.com/2014/01/grand-total-mania-totals-at-top-multiple-totals/

Mynda

 
Posted : 30/09/2016 6:27 am
(@johnsonmd)
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Thank you -- I will give it a go.  Reading the post, I believe it will be very helpful and is definitely a lot closer than what I was able to [not] find through my own attempts at searching the web.  Thanks for providing this forum!

 
Posted : 30/09/2016 10:31 am
(@mynda)
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Glad I could [indirectly] help 🙂

 
Posted : 01/10/2016 7:28 am
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