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Query data for a PivotTable or PivotChart report in the background or while you wait
This setting is not available in reports based on OLAP (OLAP: A database technology that has been optimized for querying and
reporting, instead of processing transactions. OLAP data is organized hierarchically and stored in cubes instead of tables.) source
data (source data: The list or table that's used to create a PivotTable or PivotChart report. Source data can be taken from an Excel list
or range, an external database or cube, or another PivotTable report.).
1. Click the report.
2. On the PivotTable toolbar, click PivotTable or PivotChart, and then click Table Options or Options.
3. Do one of the following:
To wait during queries until retrieval is complete, clear the Background query check box.
To query in the background so that you can continue working in Microsoft Excel, select the Background query check box.

4. To run the query with the new setting, click Refresh Data on the PivotTable toolbar.
To stop a query that's running while you wait, press ESC. To check on progress or stop a background query, double-click the
icon on the status bar to display the External Data Refresh Status dialog box, and then click Stop Refresh.
Note When you record a macro (macro: An action or a set of actions you can use to automate tasks. Macros are recorded in the
Visual Basic for Applications programming language.) that includes a query, Microsoft Excel runs the query while you wait. To change
the macro to query in the background, use the Visual Basic Editor (Visual Basic Editor: An environment in which you write new and edit
existing Visual Basic for Applications code and procedures. The Visual Basic Editor contains a complete debugging toolset for finding
syntax, run-time, and logic problems in your code.) and change the statement "BackgroundQuery := False" to "BackgroundQuery :=
True".

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