Microsoft® PowerPivot for Excel® 2010

Introduction

Since we first began thinking about Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010, we have had to revise our thoughts a number of times. First we needed to be persuaded to look at the tool seriously. Then when we decided to write about it, we had to decide how to do that. Writing a book is a hard work. Two authors writing a book together is much harder. You might think at first that the project requires of each person half the time it would take either author to write the whole book himself. As it turns out, a joint project requires a lot of communication because each person discusses the drafts written by the other, which leads to long conversations about what the final results should be. Despite our misunderstanding of the time it would take ...