Group Dates In Pivot Table When Blanks – 2530

Lasma wants her pivot table to group daily dates up to months and years. But she has some empty rows and the Group Field is greyed out.

In this video:
Surprise! Microsoft 365 now allows blanks in the date field and you can still group.
Solution 1: Fill blank date fields with 2199 December 31
Solution 2: Add your own Year and Month fields to the data set
And, a warning from Debra Dalgleish at Contextures: if you mix dates and text, the Group Field will still be greyed out.

Table of Contents
(0:00) Pivot Group Dates with Blanks
(0:15) Fix from Excel Team
(1:10) Select empty date cells
(2:09) Add Year Month to source data
(2:40) Month Name from date using TEXT
(3:30) Debra: mix of dates and text
(4:00) “empty” cells by spacing through
(4:48) Wrap-up