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PivotTable Date Handling in Excel 2013

Just testing out porting some 2010 reports into 2013 and found that Excel functionality has changed just enough to break them.  Curious if someone might point out a solution:

1) Report is pulling from a SQL database and/or OData feed.

2) I have projects along the Y axis.

3) I have standard stage gates along the X axis.

4) Each cell should depict the date upon which each project will hit the stage gate.

In 2010, I simply set up the PivotTable and then set the cells to display the "Max" value of the date.  After formatting the cell to appear as a date, it worked just fine.

In 2013, I get a message that I can't use the Max calculation with date fields in the pivot table.  Effectively, this breaks the report.  Is there an easy fix to this or do I need to break out some sort of combination of v and hlookups?

Thanks in advance....


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