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XL97: Active Cell Moves Using RefreshTable Method

Article ID: 157383

Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006

Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q157383

SYMPTOMS

When you use the RefreshTable method to programmatically refresh data in a PivotTable, the active cell moves to a different location on the active worksheet.

CAUSE

This problem occurs when the active sheet is not the sheet that contains the PivotTable.

NOTE: The selected cells on the active sheet have not changed; the screen is redrawn incorrectly.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, refresh the selected cells or select the cells again. To do this, type the following statement after the RefreshTable statement in your macro:

   Selection.Select

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem no longer occurs in Microsoft Excel 2000.

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The RefreshTable method updates data in the PivotTable to reflect changes in the source data. The following example illustrates the RefreshTable method, as well as the workaround that corrects the screen updating problem.

Type the following text into Sheet1 of a new workbook. (The workbook should contain only one worksheet.)
A1: Assistants
A2: PowerPup
A3: Dot
A4: Genius
Select cells A1:A4 and click PivotTable Report on the Data menu.
Click Next twice to go to step 3 of the PivotTable wizard.
In step 3 of the wizard, drag the Assistants field to both the Row and Data areas on the diagram.
Click Finish.

A PivotTable appears on a new sheet.
Insert a Visual Basic module. To do this, point to Macro on the Tools menu, click Visual Basic Editor, and then click Module on the Insert menu.

Type the following macro code into the module sheet:

      Sub RefreshMyTable()

          Sheet2.Activate
          Range("A3:B5").Select
          Sheet1.Activate
          Range("A1").Select
          Sheet2.PivotTables(1).RefreshTable
          Selection.Select

      End Sub

To run the macro, point to Macro on the Tools menu, click Macros, select RefreshMyTable, and then click OK.

REFERENCES

For more information about the RefreshTable method, click the Index tab in Visual Basic Help, type the following text

RefreshTable

and then double-click the selected text to go to the "RefreshTable method" topic.

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