PivotTables
PivotTables
In this blog article, we’ll step through using PowerPivot for Excel 2010 for building a rich application in Excel. Note: following screenshots describe the SQL Server 2008 R2 August Community Technology Preview (CTP) functionality for a feature codenamed
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Today we have a guest author from the SQL Server Analysis Services team, Ashvini Sharma, to tell us about the PowerPivot (née Gemini) feature that you may have heard about recently. PowerPivot is the recently announced name of technologies this blog previously
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Thanks to Diego Oppenheimer for putting together this post. In today’s post I will be covering a couple of smaller PivotTable features that we incorporated in Excel 2010. Most of these features have been longstanding customer requests or pain points that
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Thanks to Diego Oppenheimer for putting together this post. When thinking of Excel as an OLAP analytical tool the first thing that usually comes to mind is the ability to quickly and easily analyze data from an OLAP data source. With the introduction
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Thanks to Diego Oppenheimer for putting together this post. When working with PivotTables, you often come across scenarios where you want to work with the same set of items from the data over and over again. For example, you might be a regional manager
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Exploring large data sets and creating filters has never been easier than with Excel 2010. Tables, PivotTables and PivotCharts now have a new search functionality that easily enables you to find what you need, filter and repeat for a faster more efficient
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On the topic of “teasers”, one of the things we’ll be talking about in the coming weeks is project Gemini. I won’t get into the details just yet (otherwise it wouldn’t be a teaser), other than to say it’s a powerful data analysis feature, it’s an add-in
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Today’s author, Monica Poinescu, a Software Developer in Test on the Excel team, discusses two different approaches to analyzing data in Excel. Edit: I've attached a file at the bottom of this blog that contains spreadsheets of the examples discussed
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Today’s author, John Campbell, a Program Manager on the Excel Services team, shows us the quick and easy way to get external data access working with your Excel Services spreadsheets. I have seen a lot of great blog posts that tell folks how to do great
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Today's author, Diego Oppenheimer, a Program Manager on the Excel team, talks about connecting PivotTables to data stored in SharePoint Lists. Many of us on the Excel team have been approached by customers asking us how to create a connection to a SharePoint
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Today's author, Christian Stich, a Program Manager on the Excel Services team, discusses how to enable users to quickly and easily create workbooks using external data connections specified in server based data connection files. Overview Excel and Excel
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Today's author: David Gainer, a Program Manager on the Excel team. PivotTables are designed to help users make sense of large amounts of data by providing an easy way to build a summarized report. In addition, PivotTables can be rearranged easily, so
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Recently I posted an article discussing how PivotTables can be used on Excel Services to mimick the Data Validation feature . The author, Dany Hoter, sent me a copy of the file he used in the example screen shots and I never got around to posting it for
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Today's author: Dany Hoter, a product planner who works on the Excel Services team. Excel has a feature called Data Validation that controls the possible values a user might enter into a cell or a range of cells. As you can see there are many options
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Today's author: Allan Folting, a program manager who works on the Excel team. I have gotten lots of questions from customers around specific functionality in Microsoft Excel 2007 PivotTables that is missing when connected to Microsoft SQL Server 2005
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