Sometimes, using more than one pivot table is a mess. But it’s not a mess if you connect all the pivot tables with a single slicer. S,o do you know how to link a slicer with multiple pivot tables?
If you don’t know, follow this post, and you will learn a superb trick for creating interactive dashboards.
Yes, that’s right.
Let’s say you are working on a dashboard with multiple pivot tables. If you can connect a slicer to all the pivot tables, you can control the entire dashboard with a single slicer.
In the above example, we have a single slicer to control both pivot tables.
NOTE: Pivot Tables are one of the INTERMEDIATE EXCEL SKILLS.
Steps to Connect a Slicer to Multiple Pivot Tables
Below are the steps which you need to follow to create a multi-linked slicer:
- First of all, take two or more pivot tables to connect a slicer.
- After that, select a cell in any of the pivot tables.
- From here, go to Analyze → Filter → Insert Slicer.
- Now from the “Insert Slicer” dialog box, select the column to use as a filter in the slicer and click OK.
- At this point, you have a slicer in your worksheet which can filter the pivot table in which you insert it.
- Next, you need to connect it to the second pivot table.
- From here, select the slicer and go to Analyze → Slicer → Report Connections.
- You will get a new dialog box with the list of pivot tables that are in your workbook.
- In the end, just tick mark all the pivot tables and click OK.
Congratulations! You have connected the slicer with two pivot tables.
thanks a lot for this – grateful
I am using Office 2016
1. I created two pivot tables side by side similar to what you have in your tutorial
2. followed your steps above > This did not work
It keeps popping up just the other data table on another sheet that was used for this pivot table and the original data page and not the second pivot table on this sheet1 page. It does not find the secondary pivot table on the same sheet.
– they are created from different data sources, but have some similar information (Columns) that I wish to use as a slicer in both…. does not work.
The enable show PT data allows user by double clicking to see all the source data Fields in from source !, Is there a way that once you double click on PT, Only the Filtered result Data values fields Details to be shown to the PT user, by ignoring other row fields. Hope it clears to you. Example my source data has Salary for all employees, however don not want to show all columns to PT user