SmallGrid Property

True if Microsoft Excel uses a grid that’s two cells wide and two cells deep for a newly created PivotTable report. False if Excel uses a blank stencil outline. Read/write Boolean.

Remarks

You should use the stencil outline. The grid is provided only because it enables compatibility with earlier versions of Excel.

Example

This example creates a new PivotTable cache based on an OLAP provider, and then it creates a new PivotTable report based on this cache, at cell A3 on the active worksheet. The example uses the stencil outline instead of the cell grid.

With ActiveWorkbook.PivotCaches.Add(SourceType:=xlExternal)
    .Connection = _
        "OLEDB;Provider=MSOLAP;Location=srvdata;Initial Catalog=National"
    .MaintainConnection = True
    .CreatePivotTable TableDestination:=Range("A3"), _
        TableName:= "PivotTable1"
End With
With ActiveSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable1")
    .SmallGrid = False
    .PivotCache.RefreshPeriod = 0
    With .CubeFields("[state]")
        .Orientation = xlColumnField
        .Position = 0
    End With
    With .CubeFields("[Measures].[Count Of au_id]")
        .Orientation = xlDataField
        .Position = 0
    End With
End With