Microsoft KB Archive/318063

= XL2000: Cannot Set the Orientation Property of a Pivot Field =

Article ID: 318063

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q318063



SYMPTOMS
When you try to use Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications to set the Orientation property of a pivot field in a PivotTable, you receive the following error message:

Unable to set the Orientation property of the PivotField class

NOTE: You can successfully set the property manually.



CAUSE
This error message occurs when you try to set the Orientation property of a field that contains more than 8,000 unique values.

NOTE: In Excel 2002, before you install Microsoft Office XP Service Pack (SP-2), the error message may occur when a field contains more than 32,500 unique values.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

276367 OFF2000: How to Obtain the Latest Office 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:   Date         Time   Version     Size       File name --  25-FEB-2002  17:59  N/A         1,853,700  Excel.msp 25-FEB-2002 19:00  N/A         4,452,188  Excel_Admin.msp After the hotfix is installed, the following files will have the listed attributes or later:   Date         Time   Version     Size       File name 22-MAR-2002 01:13  9.0.0.6221  7,159,853  Excel.exe

NOTE: This problem was fixed in Excel 2002 by the Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 2 (SP-2).

For additional information about how to download and install Service Pack 2 (SP-2), click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

325671 OFFXP: Overview of the Office XP Service Pack 2



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP-3).

Additional query words: PivotField pivot table

Keywords: kboffice2000sp3fix kbbug kbfix kboffice2000presp3fix kbofficexppresp2fix kbofficexpsp2fix kbqfe kbhotfixserver KB318063

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