{"id":1672,"date":"2026-04-27T09:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:47:08","slug":"your-pivot-tables-are-okay-but-rebuilding-them-this-way-takes-5-minutes-and-saves-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/your-pivot-tables-are-okay-but-rebuilding-them-this-way-takes-5-minutes-and-saves-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Pivot Tables are okay, but rebuilding them this way takes 5 minutes and saves hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your Pivot Tables are okay, but rebuilding them this way takes 5 minutes and saves hours<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/pivot-tables-okay-rebuilding-saves-hours\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.makeuseof.com\/pivot-tables-okay-rebuilding-saves-hours\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stop clicking\u2014build Pivot Tables with formulas<br \/>\nA faster, more flexible way to create dynamic summaries<\/li>\n<li>Changing layouts becomes effortless<br \/>\nRearrange fields without rebuilding everything from scratch<\/li>\n<li>There are a few gotchas to know<br \/>\nWhere this approach can trip you up<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s a smarter way to pull data<br \/>\nCleaner inputs that make your analysis far more powerful<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&gt;&gt; PIVOTBY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Pivot Tables are okay, but rebuilding them this way takes 5 minutes and saves hours <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/pivot-tables-okay-rebuilding-saves-hours\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.makeuseof.com\/pivot-tables-okay-rebuilding-saves-hours\/<\/a> Stop clicking\u2014build Pivot Tables with formulas A faster, more flexible way to create dynamic summaries Changing layouts becomes effortless Rearrange fields without rebuilding everything from scratch There are a few gotchas to know<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[30,33],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-tools","tag-excel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 09:57:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}