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How to get the selected value of a slicer and display it in a cell in Excel?

Author Siluvia Last modified

Suppose you have created a pivot table and a slicer for controlling the pivot table. Now you need to output the selected values from the slicer to a specified cell as below screenshot shown. How do you achieve this? In this tutorial, we provide a trick to help you accomplish this task.

Get the selected value of a slicer and list in a cell

Please do as follows to output the selected items from the slicer to a specified cell.

1. Click on any cell in the pivot table, press the "Ctrl" + "A" keys to select the whole pivot table. Then press the "Ctrl" + "C" keys to copy it.

A screenshot of the copied pivot table in Excel

2. Paste the selected pivot table to a new place by selecting a cell and pressing the "Ctrl" + "V" keys.

3. Now, you need to adjust the newly created pivot table so that its values match those in the slicer.

3.1) In this case, I remove all existing fields from the areas;
3.2) Then drag the field that used for the slicer to the "Rows" area. See screenshot:

4. Right click on the "Grand Total" cell in the newly created pivot table and select "Remove Grand Total" in the context menu.

A screenshot of the context menu showing the 'Remove Grand Total' option

5. Click on any cell in the newly created pivot table, and then click "Analyze" > "Field Headers" to hide the field header.

A screenshot of the Analyze tab in Excel with the Field Headers option highlighted

Now only values are displayed in the newly created pivot table.

A screenshot of the newly created pivot table displaying only values

6. Select a cell (say B2 in this case) where you want to output the selected values in the slicer. Enter the following formula into it and press the "Enter" key to get the result.

=TEXTJOIN(",",TRUE,G:G)

A screenshot of the formula entered into a cell to get the selected slicer values

Note: In the formula, "G:G" is the column containing the values from the newly created pivot table. And this "TEXTJOIN" function is only available in Office 365, Excel 2019 and later versions.

From now on, when values are selected in the slicer, they will be output to the specified cell immediately.

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