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Not sure you can refresh a pivot table in a shared workbook - may have to unshare it, refresh and then share again.
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Not sure you can refresh a pivot table in a shared workbook - may have to unshare it, refresh and then share again.

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Hmmm, sharing is the main reason why we use Excel Online. I'll test how pivot tables work without having the workbook shared.<br />
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But meanwhile, Are there other solutions?
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Hmmm, sharing is the main reason why we use Excel Online. I'll test how pivot tables work without having the workbook shared.

But meanwhile, Are there other solutions?

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I can not help you directly, what if I leave you are links to the official Microsoft website about the topic you are talking about.<br />
Refresh PivotTable data<br />
<a href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/refresh-pivottable-data-6d24cece-a038-468a-8176-8b6568ca9be2?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US" rel="ugc">https://support.office.com<wbr />/en-us/art<wbr />icle/refre<wbr />sh-pivotta<wbr />ble-data-6<wbr />d24cece-a0<wbr />38-468a-81<wbr />76-8b6568c<wbr />a9be2?ui=e<wbr />n-US&amp;rs=en<wbr />-US&amp;ad=US</a><br />
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And<br />
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PivotTable compatibility issues<br />
<a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/pivottable-compatibility-issues-6dfc21ca-994b-4080-8f3b-773b6612db0e?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us" rel="ugc">https://support.microsoft.<wbr />com/en-us/<wbr />office/piv<wbr />ottable-co<wbr />mpatibilit<wbr />y-issues-6<wbr />dfc21ca-99<wbr />4b-4080-8f<wbr />3b-773b661<wbr />2db0e?ui=e<wbr />n-us&amp;rs=en<wbr />-us&amp;ad=us </a><br />
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Regards.
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I can not help you directly, what if I leave you are links to the official Microsoft website about the topic you are talking about.
Refresh PivotTable data
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/refresh-pivottable-data-6d24cece-a038-468a-8176-8b6568ca9be2?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US [https://support.office.com/en-us/article/refresh-pivottable-data-6d24cece-a038-468a-8176-8b6568ca9be2?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US]

And

PivotTable compatibility issues
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/pivottable-compatibility-issues-6dfc21ca-994b-4080-8f3b-773b6612db0e?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/pivottable-compatibility-issues-6dfc21ca-994b-4080-8f3b-773b6612db0e?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us]

Regards.

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Hello exports,<br />
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We use excel online for collaboration. Pivot tables work fine. But when data is changed, and we want to refresh the pivot table data it gives a error.<br />
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<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2020/04_w17/1451131/dbs-coc-system---2020-04-24--1-.jpg" target="_blank" title="Error on refresh (385 KB)"><img alt="Error on refresh" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 800px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2020/04_w17/800_1451131/dbs-coc-system---2020-04-24--1-.jpg" /></a><br />
I have no external data source, all of the pivot tables sources are in the workbook.<br />
How can we solve this?
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Hello exports,

We use excel online for collaboration. Pivot tables work fine. But when data is changed, and we want to refresh the pivot table data it gives a error.



I have no external data source, all of the pivot tables sources are in the workbook.
How can we solve this?

Excel online can't refresh pivot table data

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