like rows, columns, values, filters, etc. However, at times, the user may encounter a “Data Source Reference is Not Valid” error when trying to create a private table within the spreadsheet. But don’t fret,
When opening an Excel workbook that contains square brackets in the name (e.g., "foo[1]"), the user will receive the following error message when attempting to create PivotTables using data from within the workbook: Data source reference is not valid Cause The cause is due to square b...
Imagine you are diligently working on your Excel spreadsheet, and all of a sudden, you are stuck with an error –“the pivot table field name is not valid.” This cryptic message occurs when trying to create a pivot table or modify data fields in a pivot table using VBA. This error can...
Error: Field Name Not Valid Error: Pivot Table Overlap Error: Couldn’t Get Data Error: Reference Isn’t Valid Problem: Pivot Table Duplicate Items ___ 50 thoughts on “Pivot Table Error: Excel Field Names Not Valid”
In this tutorial, I will show you five ways of fixing the “Pivot Table field name is not valid”error. Table of Contents Method #1: Ensure that Every Column in The Source Data Range is Labeled Method #2: Unmerge Cells in the Source Data Range ...
The error doesn’t occur immediately when you open the workbook. Instead, you see it when you interact with a PivotTable or report that uses the workbook Data Model as a data source. Data interactions, such as clicking a slicer or changing a report filter, gen...
If you have the Data tool bar open, you should, with your screen open to the Pivot Table, be able to click on "Refresh All" to have it update the data on which the Pivot Table is based. EMcil82 It does make sense. And after following the thread that@EMcil82gave, I see it's...
Even when I download the sheet from onedrive and try to change the source range for each pivot table it gives the error that "Data Source Range is not valid". The only way that I have found to resolve the issue is to: 1) Download the sheet ...
Hi, I have recently been experiencing what must be a bug in Excel where I try and change the data source of a pivot table, but nothing happens and it just stays as the same old data source. It on... I generally face such issue when I try to move the file to some other folder ...
Now just imagine if you add data to your source sheet every day you have to update the source range every day. And every time changing pivot table range is a mess. Yes, that’s right, the more frequently you add data, the more you need to update the source range. ...