Click on the arrow to obtain the drop-down menu. From perusing the categories, it’s obvious that many businesses receive assistance. A number of the business names end with “Ltd.” There are too many values to display in this filter box. If there is a particular company or organization of interest, then you can search the original table, and then return to the pivot table to plug the names into the search box that you see in the screen grab above. Select the acronym for the designation limited. Once you’ve “Ltd.”, made the selection, in this case the companies with the suffix, “Ltd.” select the OK tab. ACOA hands out most of its money to businesses with the suffix as “Ltd” in the form of unconditionally repayable contributions. If you’re happy with this result, you can give the pivot table a specific name, and return to your original table to build another one. Or if you wanted to perform some math on the values such as percent of total, or year-to-year changes, you could use the paste-special option that we learned in to create a table in a new worksheet. You could also add one more variable to the pivot table’s “Values” section. In this case, we can COUNT the number of recipients. Drag project number into values, and format it as a number with no decimal places. To the right of each year, and the grand total, the pivot table has added a column that COUNTS the number of recipients. In 2016, 57
Click on the arrow to obtain the drop-down menu. From perusing the categories, it’s obvious that many businesses receive assistance. A number of the business names end with “Ltd.” There are too many values to display in this filter box. If there is a particular company or organization of interest, then you can search the original table, and then return to the pivot table to plug the names into the search box that you see in the screen grab above. Select “Ltd.”, the acronym for the designation limited. Once you’ve made the selection, in this case the companies with the “Ltd.” suffix, select the OK tab. ACOA hands out most of its money to businesses with the “Ltd” suffix as in the form of unconditionally repayable contributions. If you’re happy with this result, you can give the pivot table a specific name, and return to your original table to build another one. Or if you wanted to perform some math on the values such as percent of total, or year-to-year changes, you could use the paste-special option that we learned in to create a table in a new worksheet. You could also add one more variable to the pivot table’s “Values” section. In this case, we can COUNT the number of recipients. Drag project number into values, and format it as a number with no decimal places. To the right of each year, and the grand total, the pivot table has added a column that COUNTS the number of recipients. In 2016, 57
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