This article provides a handy trick for adding filter options to all columns in your Pivot Table.
It walks you through the technique step-by-step, ensuring you can easily enhance your data analysis capabilities. Whether you're new to Pivot Tables or looking to streamline your workflow, this guide offers a practical solution for managing and filtering your data more efficiently.
Only the first column has the filter option by default
When you create a pivot table, only the first column offers the option of filtering or sorting.
Now, if we want to add filters for the other columns, the Filter menu (Data > Filter) is disabled 😡😡😡
But there is a trick to change this behavior 😉
Add a filter option for all your pivot table columns.
- Select the first empty cell after the header column of your pivot table
- Click on the Filter menu Data > Filter (the menu is enabled)
- And then, all your columns have the filter option 😍😍😍
All the filter options are now available for all the columns of a pivot table
Users can narrow down the necessary information by filtering data in all the columns and focusing on relevant details. This saves time and effort that would otherwise be spent manually sorting and sifting through data. Overall, filters make working with Excel more efficient and productive.
Wraind
01/11/2023 @ 22:15
Click PivotTable Options
Display Tab
Put Check on Classic PivotTable layout
hope this helps
Frédéric LE GUEN
02/11/2023 @ 03:07
But it doesn't include the column Total. Only the column in the Row field
som
20/06/2023 @ 08:32
Thank you very much for the info. It helps.
Harith Khan
23/05/2023 @ 03:54
Thank you very much for this info!
fi
06/04/2023 @ 07:08
Thank you very much
You saved my life
Frédéric LE GUEN
06/04/2023 @ 07:30
You're welcome 🙂
Sarah
06/06/2023 @ 22:36
Sending you massive THANK YOU THIS IS GENIUS!!!
Jude
23/09/2022 @ 02:49
Column filters still doesn't if work for the entire table. if you click the filter it doesn't make any change. Only first column filter works. Thank you.
Frédéric LE GUEN
23/09/2022 @ 12:53
That's weird because it works for many years (what ever the Excel version)
Linnie
12/09/2022 @ 07:58
This is fantastic. Thanks for the tip.
Gina Dowling
02/09/2022 @ 17:00
I used to be able to do this in desktop excel all the time. Now i have excel 365 and this trick doesn't work. Any updated tips to help?
Andrew
30/08/2022 @ 15:37
This is cool, but seems to always leave in the last pivot table "row" - independent of the filter. This has no direct link with grand totals and subtotals AFAICS, although there may be something behind the scenes. Feels like an incredibly near miss to replicate functionality that should always be there. Of couse you could, more crudely, put an autofilter above your pivot table, but I think this suffers from the same problem.
karen
18/08/2022 @ 08:01
YOU ARE THE BEST BEST BEST
Ruchika
19/01/2022 @ 20:40
I have date field which I want to use as filter in pivottable report. But i see only dates, i want to have multiple filters in same dropdown for year,month, quarter,day . Please share how to achieve that.
Frédéric LE GUEN
19/01/2022 @ 20:56
Very good question. Tomorrow I will do an article or video for that
Vivek
15/01/2022 @ 12:43
hi
thanks for the great tip.
Now, I'm trying to figure out how to see the value filter just below the Number filters in the right-click menu, and I dont see in it my Pivot.
I have downloaded a sample excel with a pivot which already has the value filter. I'm trying to create my own pivot in this sample excel using the same data set, but I just dont see the value filer.
can someone help?
Yusely Palacios
13/10/2021 @ 01:25
Thank you, I was going crazy looking for a way to do this.
Eric Meunier
20/09/2021 @ 13:22
hi,
it works when I have one set of values, but with 2 sets, I can't get the filter across the whole pivot table. Note that it used to work with 2016 but since my recent 'upgrade' to 365, this feature seems to be lost.
Frédéric LE GUEN
28/09/2021 @ 13:49
True it works only with 1 header not 2.
But it works also with 365. That's what I use
Joy
09/09/2021 @ 07:56
wow, thank you! great help! =)
Frédéric LE GUEN
09/09/2021 @ 08:10
You're welcome
Andreas
06/08/2021 @ 09:10
Wow, so simple! Thank you!
Frédéric LE GUEN
19/08/2021 @ 07:03
You're welcome 😉
Prajjwal Agrawal
13/07/2021 @ 12:51
Awesome!!!
Predrag
07/05/2021 @ 10:01
such quick and simple solution, THANK YOU
jason
20/04/2021 @ 16:32
Oh my god, i've been searching for a solution to this for dayssss. All these guides and tutorials and forum posts and NO ONE seems to address this. It's such an easy solution I'm laughing at myself lol. Thank you so much!
Frédéric LE GUEN
20/04/2021 @ 17:06
I don't have time to promote my articles on forums. But you can do it 😉
Beverly Cusack
31/03/2021 @ 17:18
simple and effective solution. Took 1 minute. Thank you
LM
24/02/2021 @ 09:17
Excellent (and so misterious), thank you
Sandy Browner
05/11/2020 @ 23:52
I have fought this FOREVER! Thanks!!
Julie R
27/08/2020 @ 16:48
THANK YOU!!!