PivotTables · original practice scenario
Select an entire PivotTable report
A PivotTable summarizes expense totals and you want to select its report.
Start here: Windows worksheet; active cell inside an existing PivotTable report
Do not follow the source article deletion step unless you intend to remove the report.
Follow these instructions in your own desktop Excel workbook. This page explains the operation; it does not send commands to Excel.
Windows keys and context
The Microsoft removal instructions document Ctrl+A as the selection step. Selection alone does not delete the report.
Ctrl+A
Delete a PivotTable / Select the entire PivotTable. Microsoft reference ↗
Walk through the operation
- Click a result cell inside the PivotTable.
- Press Ctrl+A once.
- Inspect the selection before running any other command.
Instruction 1 of 3: Click a result cell inside the PivotTable.
Expected result: The PivotTable report is selected.
Recall the keys
Which listed Windows combination or sequence starts this operation in the context above?
Related walkthroughs
- Clear a focused PivotTable slicer filter
- Toggle a PivotTable field checkbox
- Group selected PivotTable items
- Ungroup PivotTable items
Catalog updated 2026-10-18. US keyboard notation: + joins held keys; commas separate successive presses. Function keys may require Fn. Desktop instructions are separate from this browser's own keyboard shortcuts.