Excel Tutorial – GETPIVOTDATA

Excel’s GETPIVOTDATA function allows you to extract data from a pivot table and use it in a formula. This can be useful for quickly retrieving data from a pivot table and using it in calculations or for creating dynamic formulas that update when the pivot table changes.

Here’s how to use the GETPIVOTDATA function:

1. Create a pivot table by selecting a range of data and clicking the “PivotTable” button in the “Insert” tab of the ribbon.
2. In a cell, type the following formula: =GETPIVOTDATA(data_field, pivot_table, [field1], [item1], [field2], [item2], ...)
3. Replace data_field with the name of the field that contains the data you want to extract. This should be a field that appears in the “Values” area of the pivot table.
4. Replace pivot_table with the cell reference or name of the pivot table that you want to extract data from.
5. Optionally, you can specify additional arguments to filter the data that you want to extract. To do this, you will need to specify a field name and an item name for each argument. The field name should be a field that appears in the “Column Labels” or “Row Labels” area of the pivot table, and the item name should be an item within that field.

Here’s an example of the complete formula: =GETPIVOTDATA("Sales", PivotTable1, "Region", "East", "Product", "Widget")

This formula would extract the sales data for the “Widget” product in the “East” region from the pivot table named “PivotTable1”.