Excel vba macro create pivot table. This vba tutorial is accompanied by excel workbooks containing the data and macros i use in the examples below. The following code will create a filter based on region in the filters section. To build a pivot report you have to select the fields to the filters values etc. In this vba tutorial you learn how to create a pivot table with different destinations both worksheet or workbook and from both static and dynamic data ranges.
Before creating a pivot table excel inserts a blank sheet and then create a new pivot table there. The selected table will become the source data and the pivot table will be created accordingly. It will insert a new worksheet with the name pivot table before the active worksheet and if there is worksheet with the same name already it will delete it first. This ensures excel knows where to find the source when you want to refresh the table.
Vba requires you to cache the data before supplying it to the pivot table creation function. Hopefully this guide will serve as a good resource as you try to automate those extremely powerful pivot tables in your excel spreadsheets. Also we will define the cell address of the current inserted worksheet to create the pivot table. And below code will do the same for you.
We can also automate the process of creating a pivot table through vba coding. Excel vba pivot table pivot tables are the heart of summarizing the report of a large amount of data. You can get immediate free access to these example workbooks by subscribing to the power spreadsheets newsletter. Pivot tables and vba can be a little tricky initially.
A pivot table called pivottable1 has been created with product in the rows section and sales in the values section. The common steps to insert a pivot table is to first insert a pivot table from the insert menu then select the tables which you want to change into a pivot table. With vba we have to write the code for this by first defining a pivot cache through the data source.