If you create a Pivot Table from multiple consolidation ranges, as you
discovered, you won't get the same pivot table layout that you'd get
from a single range. There's more information here:
http://www.contextures.com/xlPivot08.html
Perhaps you can store the data in a database, and create the pivot table
from that.
> I have a workbook with two sheets of about 40,000 rows each, when I try to
> use the Multiple Consolidation Ranges option I don't see what is expected in
> the field list ie. a list of the column/row names. Instead I get "row column
> value".

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Debra Dalgleish
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