Group dates by month, quarter and year
Turn a list with one date per row into monthly, quarterly and yearly totals inside a pivot table.
In this lesson
- Put the date field in Rows, right-click a date in the pivot, choose Group… and pick Months, Quarters or Years.
- Months merge across years.
- The same dialog groups numbers into ranges.
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