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How to remove bold font of pivot table in Excel?

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After creating a pivot table in a worksheet, you will see the font of row labels, subtotal rows and Grand Total rows are bold. If you want to un-bold these rows, the first consider is to apply the Bold feature to remove the bold font. But, in pivot table, you will find this feature will not work normally. Today, I will talk about how to quickly remove bold font in pivot table.

Remove bold font in pivot table by unchecking Row / Column Headers

Remove bold font in pivot table by removing the formatting


Remove bold font in pivot table by unchecking Row / Column Headers

To remove the bold font from the pivot table, you can uncheck the Row / Column Headers as you need, please do as this:

1. Select the pivot table that you want to remove bolf font from, see screenshot:

Select the pivot table

2. Then, click Design tab in the ribbon, and then, uncheck Row Headers in the PivotTable Style Options group, and the blod font is removed from the pivot table exclude the row header and grand total row, see screenshot:

uncheck Row Headers in the PivotTable Style Options group

Tips: If you uncheck both Row Headers and Column Headers, the bold font in the row labels is removed as well, see screenshot:
uncheck both Row Headers and Column Headers, the bold font in the row labels is removed as well
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Remove bold font in pivot table by removing the formatting

To remove all bold font of the pivot table, you can clear the formatting of the pivot table as this:

Select the pivot table that you want to remove the bold font, then click Design tab, and then select None from the PivotTable Styles, and all bold font has beed removed at once, see screenshot:

select None from the PivotTable Styles to remove bold font

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