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  • Copyright 2011
  • Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8"
  • Pages: 336
  • Edition: 1st
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  • ISBN-10: 0-7897-4315-9
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-4315-2

ANALYZE HUGE AMOUNTS OF BUSINESS DATA FASTER, MORE EASILY, AND MORE ACCURATELY!

Use Microsoft’s free PowerPivot add-in for Excel 2010 to analyze immense amounts of data from any source, perform state-of-the-art business analysis far more easily, and make better decisions in less time!

Simple, step-by-step instructions walk you through installing PowerPivot, importing data, using PivotTables with PowerPivot, using super-powerful DAX functions and measures, reporting to print or SharePoint, and a whole lot more.

Whatever your Excel data analysis experience, this book will help you use PowerPivot to get the right answers, right now—without IT’s help!

•  Import and integrate data from spreadsheets, SQL Server, Access, Oracle, text files, Atom data feeds, and other sources

•  Analyze multiple tables together, without complicated VLOOKUPs

•  Format, sort, and filter data in the PowerPivot window

•  Add calculated columns using new DAX functions

•  Create powerful reports from PowerPivot data–and format them so executives instantly get your point

•  Discover PivotTable tricks that work even better in PowerPivot

•  Control multiple PivotTable elements on one worksheet, with one set of Excel 2010 Slicers

•  Use DAX Measures to quickly perform tasks that were difficult or impossible with Calculated Fields

•  Compare today’s sales to yesterday’s–or to sales from the parallel period last fiscal year.

•  Use Named Sets to prepare asymmetric reports, show actuals for past months and plan for future months.

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•  Dramatically increase your productivity–saving you 50 hours a year, or more

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•  Show you how to get great results, no matter how much data you have

•  Help you avoid critical mistakes that even experienced users make

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Table of Contents

Introduction .................................................................................................... 1

                “There’s Row 20 Million” ................................................................................................................ 2

                “The PivotTable Field List Has Fields from Both Tables” ................................................................. 2

                                Now, I Love VLOOKUPs ............................................................................................................. 3

                                “How Much Will This Cost? Well, the Client Is Free” ................................................................. 4

                                This Book Was Pitched Eight Hours Later ................................................................................. 4

                There Could Be Five Titles for This Book .......................................................................................... 4

                Who Are Those Other People in the Room? .................................................................................... 5

                                This Book Is For The Excel People.............................................................................................. 6

                How This Book Is Organized ............................................................................................................ 7

                Conventions Used in This Book ....................................................................................................... 7

                                Text Conventions ...................................................................................................................... 7

                                Special Elements ....................................................................................................................... 8

                                Cross References ....................................................................................................................... 8

1 Downloading and Installing PowerPivot .................................................... 9

                System Requirements ..................................................................................................................... 9

                                32 Bit or 64 Bit? ........................................................................................................................ 9

                                Not Excel Starter Edition ......................................................................................................... 11

                                Not Excel Web Apps ................................................................................................................ 11

                Installing PowerPivot.................................................................................................................... 11

                                The Many PowerPivot Tabs .................................................................................................... 11

                                Ribbon Tabs in the PowerPivot Application ............................................................................ 12

                Uninstalling PowerPivot ............................................................................................................... 16

                                Next Steps .............................................................................................................................. 16

2 The Promise of PowerPivot .........................................................................17

                Preparing Your Data for PowerPivot ............................................................................................. 17

                Getting Your Data into PowerPivot ............................................................................................... 18

                                Decide on a Sequence for Importing ....................................................................................... 19

                                Import a Text File ................................................................................................................... 19

                                Add Excel Data by Copying and Pasting .................................................................................. 22

                Define Relationships ..................................................................................................................... 23

                Add Calculated Columns Using DAX .............................................................................................. 25

                Build a Pivot Table ........................................................................................................................ 26

                World-Class Data Compression ..................................................................................................... 31

                Asymmetric Reporting with PowerPivot ....................................................................................... 33

                                Next Steps .............................................................................................................................. 34

3 Why Wouldn’t I Build Every Future Pivot Table in PowerPivot? .....................37

                Great Reasons to Use PowerPivot ................................................................................................. 38

                                Create One Pivot Table from Multiple Tables .......................................................................... 38

                                Use Massive Data Volumes ..................................................................................................... 39

                                Fit More Data into Memory .................................................................................................... 39

                                Use Named Sets to Build Asymmetric Pivot Tables ................................................................. 39

                                Join Four Pivot Tables Together Using a Single Set of Slicers .................................................. 40

                                PowerPivot Slicer AutoLayout Runs Circles Around Regular Excel Slicers................................ 41

                                PowerPivot Allows for Standalone Pivot Charts ...................................................................... 42

                                Convert Your PowerPivot Pivot Table to Formulas.................................................................. 43

                                Measures Created by DAX Run Circles Around Calculated Fields ............................................. 43

                The Downside of PowerPivot ........................................................................................................ 44

                                You Lose Undo ........................................................................................................................ 44

                                PowerPivot Is Not Smart Enough to Sort Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr ................................................... 44

                                It’s Hard to Change the Calculation in the Pivot Table ............................................................ 46

                                You Cannot Create PowerPivot Pivot Tables with VBA ........................................................... 49

                                You Cannot Edit a Single Cell in the PowerPivot Window....................................................... 49

                                GetPivotData Is Harder to Use with PowerPivot .............................................................. 49

                                Show Items with No Data Is Grayed Out ................................................................................. 51

                                Calculated Fields and Calculated Items Are Grayed Out .......................................................... 52

                                You Cannot Double-Click to Drill Through............................................................................... 52

                                Grouping Does Not Work with PowerPivot ............................................................................. 53

                                Certain On-Worksheet Typing Adjustments Do Not Work in PowerPivot ............................... 55

                                Greatest Pivot Table Trick of All Time: Show Pages Does Not Work ........................................ 57

                                Other Minor Annoyances ........................................................................................................ 58

                Bottom Line ................................................................................................................................. 58

                                Next Steps .............................................................................................................................. 60

4 Getting Your Data into PowerPivot .............................................................61

                Getting Excel Data into PowerPivot .............................................................................................. 61

                                Converting Your Data to a Table and Linking ......................................................................... 62

                                Add Excel Data by Copying and Pasting .................................................................................. 67

                                Adding Excel Data by Importing ............................................................................................. 76

                Importing Data from SQL Server ................................................................................................... 79

                Importing a Text File ..................................................................................................................... 80

                Importing from Atom Data Feeds ................................................................................................. 83

                Importing from Other Sources ...................................................................................................... 83

                                Next Steps .............................................................................................................................. 84

5 Creating and Managing Relationships .........................................................85

                Trying to Autodetect Relationships ............................................................................................... 85

                Manually Defining a Relationship ................................................................................................. 88

                Calculating Between Tables .......................................................................................................... 89

                Defining a Difficult Relationship ................................................................................................... 91

                                Unwinding a Lookup Table ..................................................................................................... 91

                Building a Concatenated Key Relationship ................................................................................... 95

                Is This Harder Than a VLOOKUP? .................................................................................................. 98

                Questions About Relationships ..................................................................................................... 98

                                Next Steps ............................................................................................................................ 100

6 Using Data Sheet View .............................................................................101

                Working with Data in the PowerPivot Window .......................................................................... 101

                                Applying Numeric Formatting .............................................................................................. 102

                                Sorting Data in the PowerPivot Window .............................................................................. 104

                                Filtering in the PowerPivot Window..................................................................................... 104

                                Rearranging Columns ........................................................................................................... 106

                                Hiding Columns at Two Levels .............................................................................................. 108

                                Using PowerPivot Undo and Redo ........................................................................................ 109

                                Deleting Columns ................................................................................................................. 109

                                Using the Context Menu ....................................................................................................... 109

                Adding New Columns Using DAX Formulas................................................................................. 110

                                Operators in the DAX Language ............................................................................................ 110

                                Building Formulas in the PowerPivot Grid ............................................................................ 111

                DAX Function Reference.............................................................................................................. 112

                                Date and Time Functions ...................................................................................................... 112

                                Using YEARFRAC to Calculate Elapsed Time........................................................................ 119

                                Using TIMEVALUE to Convert Text Times to Real Times ..................................................... 123

                                Examples of Math and Trigonometry Functions ................................................................... 123

                                Examples of Text Functions .................................................................................................. 130

                                Examples of Text Functions .................................................................................................. 132

                                Examples of Logical Functions .............................................................................................. 139

                                Examples of Information Functions ...................................................................................... 142

                Grabbing Values from a Related Table ........................................................................................ 142

                                Using One Value from a Related Table .................................................................................. 143

                                Getting Multiple Values from a Related Table ...................................................................... 143

                                Filtering Multiple Values from a Related Table ..................................................................... 144

                Using the Recursive Functions .................................................................................................... 145

                Using Other Functions................................................................................................................. 146

                                Next Steps ............................................................................................................................ 147

7 Building Pivot Tables ...............................................................................149

                Elements of a Pivot Table............................................................................................................ 149

                                Arranging Field Headings to Build a Report .......................................................................... 150

                                Using the PowerPivot Field List to Create Reports ................................................................ 150

                Building a Pivot Table ................................................................................................................. 152

                                A Look at the Underlying Data .............................................................................................. 152

                                Defining the Pivot Table ....................................................................................................... 153

                                Using the Report Filter .......................................................................................................... 159

                                Report Filters Versus Slicers .................................................................................................. 161

                Explanation of Column B ............................................................................................................ 162

                                Returning the Column Labels to Sanity ................................................................................ 164

                                New Trick with Column Labels.............................................................................................. 164

                                Is There a Way to Permanently Sack the Compact Layout? .................................................. 165

                Two Important Rules with Pivot Tables ...................................................................................... 166

                                Pivot Tables Do Not Recalculate When Underlying Data Changes ........................................ 166

                                You Cannot Move or Change Part of a Pivot Table ................................................................ 167

                Working with Pivot Charts .......................................................................................................... 169

                Behind the Scenes with PowerPivot Field List and Add-In.......................................................... 172

                                Next Steps ............................................................................................................................ 173

8 Cool Tricks Native to Pivot Tables ..............................................................175

                Applying Sorting Rules to Pivot Tables ....................................................................................... 175

                                Presenting Customers with the Largest Sales at the Top ...................................................... 175

                                Adding a Custom List to Control Sort Order .......................................................................... 179

                Showing the Top Five Customers ................................................................................................ 182

                                Notes About the Top 10 Filter ............................................................................................... 183

                Changing the Calculation in the Pivot Table ............................................................................... 184

                                Easiest Way to Force a Count ................................................................................................ 184

                                Using Sum, Count, Min, Max, or Average ............................................................................. 185

                                Changing the Show Values as Drop-Down ........................................................................... 187

                                Base Fields and Base Items ................................................................................................... 188

                Pivot Table Formatting ............................................................................................................... 190

                                Change the Numeric Formatting for a Field .......................................................................... 190

                                Formatting Changes on the Design Tab ................................................................................ 192

                                Not Enough Styles? Multiply by 20 ....................................................................................... 194

                Applying Data Visualizations and Sparklines .............................................................................. 195

                                Next Steps ............................................................................................................................ 197

9 Cool Tricks New with PowerPivot ..............................................................199

                Building a Report with Two Pivot Charts .................................................................................... 200

                                Chart Formatting Changes .................................................................................................... 202

                Adding Slicers and Understanding Slicer AutoLayout ................................................................. 203

                                Cannot Directly Change the Size of Slicers ............................................................................ 204

                                Controlling the Size of the Bounding Rectangle ................................................................... 206

                                Strategy for Dealing with AutoLayout of Slicers ................................................................... 208

                Adding a Pivot Chart to an Existing Layout ................................................................................. 208

                                Hooking the New Pivot Chart Up to the Existing Slicers........................................................ 210

                                Moving the Pivot Table to a Back Worksheet ....................................................................... 211

                Adding a Pivot Table to an Existing Layout ................................................................................. 212

                                Can the PowerPivot Layout Be Skipped Entirely? ................................................................. 213

                                Next Steps ............................................................................................................................ 215

10 Using DAX for Aggregate Functions ...........................................................217

                DAX Measures Are Calculated Fields for the Values Area of a Pivot Table ................................... 218

                                Five of the Six Pivot Table Drop Zones Are Filter Fields! ........................................................ 219

                                DAX Measures Respect the Home Table Filters ..................................................................... 220

                Generate a Count Distinct ........................................................................................................... 220

                                Using the DISTINCT Function ............................................................................................ 220

                                Using COUNTROWS as a Wrapper Function .......................................................................... 221

                                Entering a DAX Measure ....................................................................................................... 222

                                DAX Measures Are Calculated Only on Demand .................................................................... 225

                                DAX Measures Can Reference Other DAX Measures .............................................................. 225

                Using Other DAX Functions That Respect Filters ......................................................................... 226

                Denominators Frequently Need to Ignore the Filters .................................................................. 228

                                DAX Calculate Function Is Like the Excel SUMIFS Function ................................................... 228

                                In DAX, a Filter Might Give You More Rows Than You Started With! .................................... 230

                                ALL Function Says to Ignore All Existing Filters ................................................................... 231

                                CALCULATE Is So Powerful, There Is a Shortcut .................................................................. 234

                Using the FILTER Function ....................................................................................................... 234

                The Double Negative of AllExcept ......................................................................................... 237

                Other DAX Functions ................................................................................................................... 238

                                Next Steps ............................................................................................................................ 240

11 Using DAX for Date Magic .........................................................................241

                Using Time Intelligence Functions .............................................................................................. 242

                                Fiscal Quarters and Calendar Quarters .................................................................................. 244

                                Using Period-to-Date Calculations ........................................................................................ 245

                                Comparing Today’s Sales to Yesterday ................................................................................. 245

                                Comparing Today’s Sales to One Year Ago ............................................................................ 245

                                Reporting Sales for the Full Month ....................................................................................... 246

                                Calculating Sales for the Previous or Next Month, Quarter, Year .......................................... 247

                                Sales for the Last 30 Days ..................................................................................................... 247

                Using Date Functions for Data Reported at a Monthly Level ....................................................... 248

                                Use Care with ParallelPeriod ...................................................................................... 248

                                Opening and Closing Balances .............................................................................................. 249

                Skip the CALCULATE Function in Three Cases ......................................................................... 249

                                Next Steps ............................................................................................................................ 250

12 Named Sets, GetPivotData, and Cube Formulas .........................................251

                Defining Territories with Named Sets ......................................................................................... 251

                                Correcting the Grand Total Row in Named Sets .................................................................... 254

                Using Named Sets for Asymmetric Reporting ............................................................................. 256

                Preserving Report Formatting Using GetPivotData .............................................................. 258

                                Producing a Perfectly Formatted Shell Report ...................................................................... 259

                                Evaluating the Formula Built by Excel .................................................................................. 261

                Converting Live Pivot Table to Cube Formulas ............................................................................ 263

                                Customizing the Formatted Report ...................................................................................... 265

                                Next Steps ............................................................................................................................ 266

13 Final Formatting: Making the Report Not Look Like Excel ...........................267

                Charts Should Have Less Ink, More Information ......................................................................... 267

                                Component Charts Make Great Pie Charts ............................................................................ 268

                                Time Series Charts Should Be Columns or Lines .................................................................... 268

                                Category Charts Make Great Bar Charts ................................................................................ 269

                                Use Descriptive Titles ............................................................................................................ 269

                                Single-Series Column and Bar Charts Do Not Need Legends! ................................................ 271

                                Reduce the Number of Zeros on the Values Axis ................................................................... 271

                                Slicers Make the On-Chart Controls Obsolete ........................................................................ 272

                                Replace Pie Chart Legends with Labels ................................................................................. 273

                                Gridlines, Tick Marks, Axis, and Column Widths ................................................................... 273

                Trying to Tame the Slicers........................................................................................................... 276

                                Change the Slicer Color ......................................................................................................... 278

                Remove Excel Interface Elements ............................................................................................... 279

                                Hide the Gridlines ................................................................................................................. 279

                                Hide Other Interface Elements .............................................................................................. 279

                                Hide the PowerPivot Field List .............................................................................................. 280

                Making a Report Look Like a Dashboard ..................................................................................... 280

                                Change the Background Color .............................................................................................. 280

                                Contrast Color and Title in Row 1.......................................................................................... 280

                                Minimize the Ribbon ............................................................................................................ 281

                                Micro-Adjust the Zoom Slider ............................................................................................... 281

                                Add a Row of Color at the Bottom of the Dashboard ............................................................ 281

                                Hide the Cell Pointer Behind a Slicer..................................................................................... 281

                Adding a Picture as a Top Banner ............................................................................................... 282

                                Next Steps ............................................................................................................................ 284

14 Upgrading to PowerPivot Server ...............................................................285

                Requirements to Run the Server Version of PowerPivot ............................................................. 285

                Benefits of the PowerPivot Server .............................................................................................. 286

                How the Report Looks in the Server ............................................................................................ 287

                The Report Gallery Is Slick ........................................................................................................... 288

                Why the IT Department Will Embrace PowerPivot ..................................................................... 291

                Mistakes to Avoid When Publishing Reports to SharePoint ........................................................ 292

                                Always Add Interactivity ....................................................................................................... 293

                                Always Select Cell A1 Before Saving a Workbook ................................................................. 293

                                Pictures Will Not Render on the Server ................................................................................. 293

                                Hide All but the Main Worksheet.......................................................................................... 293

                                Whatever Is Not Hidden in Excel Shows Up in SharePoint .................................................... 294

                                Next Steps ............................................................................................................................ 294

Appendix A: More Resources .........................................................................295

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