How to Change the Data Source for Pivot Table in Excel

In this post, we will discuss changing the data source or locating the data source for a given Pivot Table. This is extremely helpful when your data keeps on changing constantly.

You can use the below steps:

1. First, click anywhere on the pivot table to activate the analyze tab.
2. After this, go to Analyze Tab
   
3. Here you need to click on the “Change Data Source” option under Data.
   
4. Now you will get a dialogue box “Change PivotTable Data Source” as below.
   
5. Here in this example, the data range for the PivotTable is Sheet1!$A$1:$F$8 which means that the rows A9 till A13 are not included in the PivotTable.
6. Now either select the complete data i.e. Sheet1!$A$1:$F$13 or use the table name range to update your PivotTable/data source.
7. In the end, click ok to update the data source.

Apart from this, you can also use the shortcut key Alt ⇢ J ⇢ T ⇢ I ⇢ D to open the “Change PivotTable Data Source” dialog box directly.

Always convert the source data into an Excel Table by pressing the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + T.

By doing this, there will be no need to update your data source again and again. Just refreshing the Pivot Table will update the data range.