Fields
The source data in the example contains three fields: Area, Item, and Cost. The pivot table as shown uses only two of these fields: Area and Cost.
Area is a Row field, and Cost has been added twice as a Value field, once to show total cost, once to show a percentage breakdown. To show total estimated cost, the Cost field is set to sum values and has been renamed “Estimate”:
To show a percentage breakown, the Cost field is added again to the Value area and renamed “%". Show Values As is set to percentage of grand total:
Finally, the Area field is sorted in descending order by Estimate (Cost):
Steps to create this pivot table
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