PowerPivot Drill Through Formatting - powerpivot

Question

Does anyone know a way to carry formatting through in a PowerPivot drill through? Whenever I do Drill Throughs on a PowerPivot workbook the report generated does not have the formatting set in PowerPivot, it just has the raw formatting from the table.

Answer 1

For changing the default table colors do this:
Double click to drill down and view the page.
Your tab now says Table Tools..
In Table Styles group click the lower right drop down button to view all styles
At the bottom see "New Table Style..."
Find the check box at the bottom of this dialog (New Table Quick Style) "Set as default table quick style for this document"
You'll have to use macros if you want to do anything else, this how I have accomplished column hiding in the past:
Dim pt As PivotTable
Dim pf As PivotField
Dim pi As PivotItem
Set pt = Me.PivotTables("PivotTable1") ' replace with your PT name (see in pivot table options)
For Each pf In pt.PivotFields
If pf.Name = "Field1" Then ' change this to your field name
For Each pi In pf.PivotItems
pi.ShowDetail = True ' True to show, False to Hide
Next pi
End If
Next pf
Another way to accomplish this via macro is putting something like this in the workbook module:
Private Sub Workbook_NewSheet(ByVal Sh As Object)
ans = MsgBox("Format this sheet?", vbYesNo)
If ans = vbYes Then blahh Sh
End Sub
Then put this in the tandard code module:
Sub blahh(sht As Worksheet)
MsgBox "formatting new sheet: " & sht.Name
End Sub
Tested and works with a pivot table, Excel 2007 already adds some styling to the drill down sheet.