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Onsite Microsoft Excel PowerPivot Training

Onsite Microsoft Excel PowerPivot Training Sessions


PowerPivot was introduced in Office 2013 and is a powerful add-in to Excel that gives you the ability to analyse and summarise large/multiple data. This Microsoftยฎ PowerPivot course teaches you how to use PowerPivot to import data from a variety of sources and create powerful Pivot Tables.

Ideally you should be an experienced Excel user and have attended an Excel advanced course. To speak to us about delivering a bespoke training package, please call us on 01892 665353 or email us.

This course is for experienced users of Excel who want to gain a progress further in managing large amounts of data with PowerPivot.

  • Installing the PowerPivot Add-in
  • Looking at the Data Model window
  • Importing data from multiple sources
  • Creating relationships between tables
  • Creating a PivotTable with PowerPivot
  • Using the Field List
  • PowerPivot and Excel PivotTables compared
  • Grouping Dates in PivotTables
  • Using Year and Month Columns
  • How to use Date filters
  • Using slicers to filter data
  • Using slicers across multiple PivotTables
  • Using Charts and slicers to create interactive dashboards
  • A brief overview of PowerView
  • Introducing DAX
  • Using Dax in PowerPivot Tables
  • Creating Calculated Columns and Fields
  • Using DAX to create calculated columns and fields
  • Using popular DAX functions
  • Using Advanced DAX Functions including: SumX and ALL Functions
  • Finding year to date, month to date and other popular groupings
  • Using a PowerPivot set to get the required data from a PowerPivot PivotTable

Please note that in there may not always be time to cover both lists and charts and the group will be given the opportunity to choose which of these they wish to cover.