I have Microsoft Excel 2003 and on this version you don't appear to be able to draw formulas from a pivot table - i.e. when you create a pivot table you can't draw the data from the pivot table into formulas. The only way I can seem to use / manipulate the data in a pivot table is to copy the pivot table using paste "values" and working from this copy - the problem is everytime you need to update the pivot table you also need to recreate the usable version. Is there a way to use / manipluate the information in a pivot table without having to create a new version by pasting values?

I hope this makes sense!

Cheers
NICK

Hi Nick

Thank you for your question.

You should be able to create a formula which links a cell outside the pivot table area with a cell in the pivot table by clicking in a blank cell (outside the pivot table) then clicking on the cell in the pivot table you wish to link to. This creates a formula which updates as opposed copying and using paste values which as you point out, doesn't update when the pivot table changes.

See how you get on with this - if there's any further problems please reply to this post again.

thanks
Amanda