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How to force a PivotTable to preserve cell formats and column widths when it is updated.
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Quick reference
Preserving Cell Formats on Update
How to force a PivotTable to preserve cell formats and column widths when it is updated.
Where/when to use the technique
When you want Excel to stay true to all the formatting work you’ve done when the PivotTable is updated.
Instructions
Preserving column widths
- Right-click the PivotTable
- Choose PivotTable Options
- Uncheck the box next to “Autofit column widths on update”
Preserving cell formatting
- This option is enabled by default
- To turn this feature off, so that a pivot table resets it’s formatting
- Right-click the PivotTable
- Choose PivotTable Options
- Uncheck the box next to “Preserve cell formatting on update”
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