2. The Promise of PowerPivot

In This Chapter

Preparing Your Data for PowerPivot 17

Getting Your Data into PowerPivot 18

Define Relationships 23

Add Calculated Columns Using DAX 25

Build a Pivot Table 26

World-Class Data Compression 31

Asymmetric Reporting with PowerPivot 33

This chapter walks you through one process of building a PowerPivot report. You will learn how simple it is to merge data from two sources in a single PowerPivot pivot table.

You can download these data sets from http://www.MrExcel.com/powerpivotbookdata.html.

Before trying these steps in this chapter, make sure that you have installed the PowerPivot client in Excel 2010 as described in Chapter 1, “Downloading and Installing PowerPivot.”

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