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...
Everything looks okay in the source data, but when you try to insert a pivot table, a confusing (and very wide!) error message appears: “The PivotTable field name is not valid. To create a PivotTable report, you must use data that is organized as a list with labeled columns. If yo...
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, ge...
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. ...
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 ...
If you save the Source Data: File will be larger File may open more quickly If you do not save the Source Data: Fill will be smaller File may open slowly while the pivot cache is rebuilt Pivot Table must be refreshed after opening the file ...
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 ...