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    Pivot table cannot group date selection

    Hello. I have a bunch of months/years as row values in a pivottable. It says can't group selection. Why is this? I made sure the formatting is date and it is.

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    Re: Pivot table cannot group date selection

    Is it possible to upload a sample file?

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    Re: Pivot table cannot group date selection

    Hi Amartino44,

    I tried & was able to successfully group the date by Months, Quarters, Years.

    Can you tell what steps are you following?

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    Re: Pivot table cannot group date selection

    Hi Amartino44,

    I tried & was able to successfully group the date by Months, Quarters, Years.

    Can you tell what steps are you following?

    Regards,
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    Re: Pivot table cannot group date selection

    If the column with the dates in your source data for the Pivot Table has text cells, the dates cannot be grouped. Here is a reference on the subject:
    http://www.contextures.com/xlPivot07.html#Problems
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