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How to Refresh a Pivot Table in Excel? - Excel Tutorials

How to Refresh a Pivot Table in Excel?

In this post, you will learn to how to refresh a pivot table in your Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

Refresh Pivot Table in Excel

You can automatically refresh the pivot tables in the following methods

  • Using a VBA code or a macro
  • Without a Macro

Refreshing a Pivot Tables without a Macro

Using this method the pivot table is updated/ refreshed only when the workbook is opened. i.e., the workbook gets updates only when you close and reopen the file.

Follow these steps to refresh your pivot table,

  • Click on a cell in your pivot table
  • Under the Options tab in the ribbon, click on the Options button.
How to Refresh a Pivot Table in Excel?
  • In the pivot table options dialog box, click on the Data tab.
  • Check the following option: “Refresh data when opening the file.”
How to Refresh a Pivot Table in Excel?
  • Click Ok.

So now, when you update the data in the worksheet it gets updated in the pivot table when you close and reopen the file.

How to Refresh a Pivot Table in Excel?

Here, I have updated the price of the banana to 5555, and when I close and reopen the file, it gets update in the pivot table.

How to Refresh a Pivot Table in Excel?