Reposted from Microsoft Community forum by recommendation to this one.
Coming back after holiday break, a key spreadsheet had many numbers in pivot tables formatted as dates. Not sure why, but I have corrected this by modifying the Normal style to General.
Still all filter drop-downs (at the top of a pivot table) contain data that is formatted MMM-YY even though the source data is formatted as a Number, 2 dec places or as a custom date (DD.MM.YYYY). This is true in all cases and in many pivot tables
on one sheet. These drop-downs used to work fine. Drop-down filters now display numbers or custom dates as what appears to be a default date format and I don't know how to change the format for a filter drop-down list (it should display as in the source, shouldn't
it?). I have tried:
- Checking the source data column on the source sheet - formatting is as expected.
- Adding the field to the values to see if it is formatted correctly - formatting is as expected.
- Adding a slicer for the field to the pivot table - formatting is as expected.
- Changing the format of the cell containing the filter - no change.
- Searching everywhere for an answer!
Example
Source data
69377
35840
18340
840
900
900
etc.
Pivot table filter drop-down list
Jun-02
Nov-05
Sep-34
Oct-63
Oct-82
etc.
Any ideas or help will be greatly appreciated.