Now, Jason needs to link his existing pivot tables to that slicer so that all the data is associated with that particular slicer. I recommend positioning it on top of your pivot tables, so that you can look at everything in one glance.Ĥ. Resize and move your slicer to where you want it to appear.
Select the variable you want to sort your data by (in this case, it’s the year) and click “OK.”ģ. Head to “Insert’ and then click the “Slicer” button. Instead of needing to change the year filter on both of those pivot tables, he could create a slicer for the year. He really wants to drill down and view beer sales by quarter and by size for only 2016. Right now, he’s looking at his data for both 20. Let’s say that Jason is looking at two different pivot tables: One that displays beer sales by quarter and one that displays beer sales by size. What exactly is a slicer? Put simply, it’s a way to link multiple pivot tables together so that you can filter your data for all of your pivot tables at once-rather than needing to change the filter on each of your individual pivot tables.
While a slicer might sound synonymous with a rare form of torture, it’s actually an incredibly useful tool-and definitely something you’ll want to be familiar with when you’re analyzing a lot of data.
