How to link a Table and a Pivot Table using Slicers in Excel?

Question

Well. I have a table named "ALL_INFO" on a Sheet in Excel and I made a Pivot table in other sheet, its name is "PIVOT_INFO". And I would like to know the way to link a table, and a pivot table using Slicers to filter information and it be reflected in both tables.

Anybody knows how I can do it?

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Create a Slicer for the PivotTable, and one for the Table. Make sure the PT Slicer is visible, and the Table Slicer is hidden somewhere where users can't see it. Then put this code in the Sheet Module corresponding to the worksheet where your PT is:

Option Explicit

Private Sub Worksheet_PivotTableUpdate(ByVal Target As PivotTable)
Dim sLastUndoStackItem As String
Dim sc_Pivot As SlicerCache
Dim sc_Table As SlicerCache
Dim si_Pivot As SlicerItem
Dim si_Table As SlicerItem

With Application
    .ScreenUpdating = False
    .Calculation = xlCalculationManual
End With

If Target.Name = "PivotTable1" Then '<= Change name as appropriate
    On Error Resume Next 'in case the undo stack has been wiped or doesn't exist
    sLastUndoStackItem = Application.CommandBars(14).FindControl(ID:=128).List(1) 'Standard Commandbar, undo stack
    'The above line doesn't seem to work in my version of O365 so we'll use the English language backup
    If sLastUndoStackItem = "" Then sLastUndoStackItem = Application.CommandBars("Standard").Controls("&Undo").List(1)
    On Error GoTo 0

    If sLastUndoStackItem = "Filter" Or sLastUndoStackItem = "Slicer Operation" Then

        Set sc_Pivot = ActiveWorkbook.SlicerCaches("Slicer_Data") '<= Change name as appropriate
        Set sc_Table = ActiveWorkbook.SlicerCaches("Slicer_Data1") '<= Change name as appropriate
        sc_Table.ClearAllFilters

        On Error Resume Next 'In case items differ between Table and PT
        For Each si_Pivot In sc_Pivot.SlicerItems
            With si_Pivot
                sc_Table.SlicerItems(.Name).Selected = .Selected
            End With
        Next si_Pivot
    End If
End If

With Application
    .ScreenUpdating = True
    .Calculation = xlCalculationAutomatic
End With

End Sub

Here's how things look before I use the "Master" slicer:

...and here's how things look after I use the "Master" slicer:

Note that filtering a Table hides rows in the entire worksheet. So you don't want to put anything that you want to remain visible at all times alongside the Table.