Fields

The source data contains six fields, but only two fields are used to build the pivot table, Item and Amount:

Item has been added as a Row field. The Amount field has been added twice as a value field. The first instance of Amount has been renamed “Sales” and and set to sum values:

The second instance of Amount has been renamed “Rank”. The rank value is created setting “Show values as” to “Rank largest to smallest”, with Item set as the Base field:

Items are sorted by Rank in Descending order:

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