# Spreadsheets: Why Pivot Tables Won’t Sum

- URL: https://dynamicaccounting.net/spreadsheets-why-pivot-tables-wont-sum/
- Date: 2010-11-11
- Topics: Excel & Office, SQL & Data
- Type: link to an external article
- Source: http://ww2.cfo.com/accounting-tax/2010/11/spreadsheets-why-pivot-tables-wont-sum/

For those of you playing with PowerPivot or regular Pivot Tables in Excel, CFO.com has a look at [Why Pivot Tables Won’t Sum](http://ww2.cfo.com/accounting-tax/2010/11/spreadsheets-why-pivot-tables-wont-sum/). Essentially the article tackles the question of why some numeric Pivot Table fields default to count instead of sum.