[mso] Re: Excel 2002 - Pivot Table Formatting

Are you setting the formatting in the spreadsheet OR the Pivot table? If
doing it in the spreadsheet...try doing it in the Pivot table. Select the
data, right click and click Format Cell. Set it to TIME and then set the
format within that dialog. Then refresh the pivot and see if that holds. 

(Yes, Linda...me and ye ol' pivots are becoming good friends!<g>) 


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From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of McDonald, Christine, Ms, DCAA
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 4:43 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Excel 2002 - Pivot Table Formatting

In my data source for the pivot table, I have cells formatted as hh:mm to
show hours and minutes, such as 1:05 meaning 1 hour and 5 minutes.
When I create the pivot table using this field as part of the row data, it
sets the format to 1:05:00 AM, changing the underlying format to hh:mm:ss
am/pm.  I change the format on that particular set of data in the pivot
table back to hh:mm, but as soon as I refresh or change the pivot table it
reverts back to hh:mm:ss am/pm format.
If I set the format on the data to general and type in 1:05, it displays
1:05:00 AM.  

Is there anyway to have it stop reformatting the cells with data is
refreshed or updated.  I have different pages of data to display, so it gets
changed often.

Thanks,

Christine McDonald
Technical Specialist
Western Regional Office


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