Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Downloading and Installing PowerPivot
• 2 The Promise of PowerPivot
• 3 Why Wouldn’t I Build Every Future Pivot Table in PowerPivot?
• 4 Getting Your Data into PowerPivot
• 5 Creating and Managing Relationships
• 6 Using Data Sheet View
• 7 Building Pivot Tables
• 8 Cool Tricks Native to Pivot Tables
• 9 Cool Tricks New with PowerPivot
• 10 Using DAX for Aggregate Functions
• 11 Using DAX for Date Magic
• 12 Named Sets, GetPivotData, and Cube Formulas
• 13 Final Formatting: Making the Report Not Look Like Excel
• 14 Upgrading to PowerPivot Server
• Appendix A: More Resources

About the Author

Bill Jelen , Excel MVP and the host of MrExcel.com, has been using spreadsheets since 1985, and he launched the MrExcel.com website in 1998. Bill was a regular guest on Call for Help with Leo Laporte and has produced more than 1,200 episodes of his daily video podcast, Learn Excel from MrExcel. He is the author of 30 books about Microsoft Excel and writes the monthly Excel column for Strategic Finance magazine. You will most frequently find Bill taking his show on the road, doing half-day Power Excel seminars wherever he can find a room full of accountants or Excellers. Before founding MrExcel.com, Jelen spent 12 years in the trenches working as a financial analyst for finance, marketing, accounting, and operations departments of a $500 million public company. He lives near Akron, Ohio, with his wife, Mary, Ellen and his sons, Josh and Zeke.