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Pivot table in excel 2007 not updating automatically

Hi,
       I have a pivot table in an excel 2007 file set to “Refresh data when opening the file”
However when I open the file I have to Refresh the Pivot table manually.
Any ideas  how I can get this option to work ?
thanks
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8/22/2022 - Mon
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Hi sanjithml, jppinto, David and Rorya...
Oh...and i thought all i had to do was tick the box
 pivot1
updating manually
 pivot2
produces the results
 pivot3
roryo...it links directly to a range on another tab
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will try your suggestion...once i figure out how to add the code!!
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hi rorya...just data on a sheet
Your help has saved me hundreds of hours of internet surfing.
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just one other piece of information... they're are other tabs in the file that have pivot tables that are updating fine...it is just this one that needs to be manually updated
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Hi sanjithml, ippinto, David, rorya , matthewspatrick
I have populated the column that the pivot  references  with dummy data and now it is updating when opening...
the excel file i am using is a template that gets xml data dumped into it ...
it now seems to be working ok..
thanks for all your inputs, greatly informative and appreciated :-)