Chapter 5

Working Directly with the Internal Data Model

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Interacting with the internal data model directly

check Starting a pivot table from the internal data model

check Using multiple tables with the internal data model

In the preceding chapters, you use the Power Pivot add-in to work with the internal data model. But as you’ll see in this chapter, you can use a combination of pivot tables and Excel data connections to directly interact with the internal data model, without the Power Pivot add-in.

Ontheweb You can find the sample files for this chapter on this book’s companion website at www.dummies.com/go/excelpowerpivotpowerqueryfd2e. These include the Chapter 5 Sample File.xlsx Excel workbook and the Facility Services.accdb Access database.

Directly Feeding the Internal Data Model

Imagine that you have the Transactions table you see in Figure 5-1, and on another worksheet you have an Employees table (see Figure 5-2) that contains information about the employees.

Snapshot of the table showing transactions by employee number.

FIGURE 5-1: This ...

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