The keyboard shortcut to clear all breakpoints is: Ctrl+ Shift+ F9 Refreshing Pivot Tables Without a Macro To remove the breakpoint that you’ve placed on the macro, just click on the red circle to make it disappear (keyboard shortcut: F9). You might need to save & close the file, then re-open it and enable macros. If this is the case, it’s likely that you haven’t saved the file as a macro-enabled workbook (.xlsm), and/or enabled macros. If you make a change to the worksheet and Excel doesn’t pull you into the VB Editor, you know there is a problem with the macro not running.
You can then press F8 to step through each line, or press F5 to run to the end (or next breakpoint). In our case, that action is any change being made in the worksheet. Now whenever an action occurs that triggers the macro, Excel will jump to the VB Editor and pause the macro so that you can check the code. The keyboard shortcut to toggle a breakpoint on/off is: F9
It also highlights that line of code in red. In the VB editor, you can click on the gray column just to the left of your Worksheet_Change macro. If your change isn’t easy to spot because you have too much data, or for some other reason, there’s another way to see if your macro is firing. Make a change to the source data and see if it is reflected in your pivot table. One way to check if the macro is working is to test it. The refresh puts the event in a recursive loop, and can end up crashing Excel. If your pivot table and source data are on the same sheet then you will need to add code to disable events. Pivot Table & Source Data on Same SheetĪleksandrs asked a great question on the YouTube video comments. This action is the same as if you manually click the Refresh button on the Data tab.Īdd this line of code to the Worksheet_Change event will refresh the workbook whenever a change is made to the worksheet that the code is in. The RefreshAll method will refresh all the pivot tables, queries, and data connections in the workbook. Next, just below the Worksheet_Change line, type in this instruction: ThisWorkbook.RefreshAll Add the VBA code to refresh all pivot tables.
Checkout my article on VBA Code Modules & How to Run Macros Based on User Events to learn more about the sheet modules and events. Since we only want the code to run when the user edits/changes cells, we use the Change event. Note: The SelectionChange event that is added by default will run any time the user selects a cell in the sheet. We can add VBA code to the Worksheet_Change event to perform actions when the user edits cells. The Worksheet_Change event macro will run any time a change is made to cells in that worksheet. Now we will highlight and delete the unnecessary code below it. This adds a new event at the top called Worksheet_Change. Before we do, let’s go to the Procedure drop-down menu on the right and choose Change. That will add a Worksheet_SelectionChange event to the module, which we don’t actually want, so we will delete it in just a moment. To do so, choose Worksheet in the Object drop-down box on the left.
Within the code module, we want to create an event macro. Add a new event for worksheet changes.ĭouble-clicking on the sheet opens up the code module for that object. If you don’t see the Project Explorer window you can enable it from the View menu (keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+ R). Select the sheet that contains the source data.
Under that workbook are listed the sheets within the workbook. In the Project Explorer window of the Visual Basic editor, locate the workbook that you want to change. Open the Sheet Module that contains your source data. You only have to do this once, and then the Developer tab will always be visible every time you open Excel in the future. If you don’t see the Developer tab, you can make it visible using the instructions here. The keyboard shortcut for opening the Visual Basic editor is Alt+ F11. You can do this by clicking the Visual Basic button on the Developer tab of the ribbon. That instruction basically says: when I make a change to my worksheet, refresh all the pivot tables and data connections.
To automatically update our pivot tables, we are going to write a macro with one simple instruction.
Watch the first video in that series on Pivot Tables & Dashboards
If you’re not too familiar with macros and VBA, I suggest checking out my free 3-part video series on getting started with Macros & VBA.Īlso, if you are new to pivot tables, I have a series to walk you through what they are and how to use them. It requires the use of a really simple macro that I will show you how to create below. Refresh-Pivot-Table-Automatically.zip Download Update Pivot Tables AutomaticallyĬan your pivot tables be updated immediately and automatically when their source data changes?Ībsolutely.