What are Pivot Table Slicers?

Pivot Table Slicers are Visual controls that help users filter data in a Pivot Table or Pivot Chart. They act as a user interface element. Slicers are useful when you have multiple fields(columns) in the pivot table and want to control the data displayed by selecting specific criteria.

Pivot Table Slicers in Excel

Slicers are the visual representation of filters. By using a slicer, we can filter our data in the pivot table by just clicking on the type of data we want. Slicers are found in the Analyze tab of the pivot table tools. We have an option called Insert Slicer and on clicking it, we have to select the column on the basis of which we need to filter our data.

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What are Pivot Table Slicers?

Pivot Table Slicers are Visual controls that help users filter data in a Pivot Table or Pivot Chart. They act as a user interface element. Slicers are useful when you have multiple fields(columns) in the pivot table and want to control the data displayed by selecting specific criteria....

How to Insert a Pivot Table Slicer

Follow the below steps to insert a Pivot table slicer:...

Working with Slicers

Here, the working of a slicer will be demonstrated by taking an example of a pivot table. Suppose we have an IMDb dataset of all the movies released in 2016 worldwide with their ratings, budget, gross revenue, country, genre, and many more things....

Formatting of Slicers

When we inserted a slicer, a new menu called slicer tools is created and within it, we have several options through which we can format our slicers....

How to Adjust the Slicers in Excel

Usually, After inserting the Pivot Table Slicers, you might need to move and resize them to ensure they are well-placed and easy to use. Excel offers various customization options to format the Slicers according to your preferences....

Linking a Slicer to Multiple pivot tables

We can link our slicer to multiple pivot tables which can build a very interactive dashboard. To do so follow the below steps:...

Advantages of Using Pivot Table Slicers

Below are some Advantages of using Pivot Table Slicers:...

FAQs on Pivot Table Slicers in Excel

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