Last week I got an email from one of our readers, with some feedback related to how Monkey Tools’ PivotSleuth works with Measure tables in Power Pivot. Best practices is to set up a disconnected table to house DAX measures.
"Microsoft Excel is not a spreadsheet application anymore, it’s a medium to store, present, and analyze data." - Puneet Gogia The way Excel has evolved in the past few years, it’s almost impossible to work without it in this present
This is a special post to to discuss a suggestion to improve the Pivot Table experience, especially for Power Pivot users. This week I’m at the 2015 MVP Summit in Redmond, WA. It’s a trip I’m lucky enough to make
If you’ve ever built a PivotTable that contains hyperlinks, you’ll notice that clicking the hyperlinks doesn’t do anything. This can be a bit frustrating as the reason you put that field on the Pivot in the first place is that
As an accountant, I build financial reports, and one of the issues that we have to deal with is getting the numbers to display in a friendly format. Because of the way that debits and credits are stored in databases
The method for hiding items with zero totals in a PivotTable is different if you're working with a regular PivotTable or a PowerPivot PivotTable. This article focusses on how to accomplish this goal in the PowerPivot version. (If you're working
Mike Alexander has a great blog post on how to Add Column Spacing In A PivotTable. We can also accomplish the same thing through a PowerPivot solution, but using DAX. And in this case, DAX is even easier to use
So you've built a really cool PivotTable, and you hooked up a slicer to allow exploration of the data. And now you want to do something really cool, but you need to make your formula react to the slicer value.
We use PowerPivot to display key information in dashboards, some of which can be refreshed right up to the current second. Naturally, one of the first questions asked when looking at the reports (particularly if they get printed) is “When
One of the things that used to drive me crazy about working with PivotTables in PowerPivot’s initial (2008) release was summarizing dates by month. With a standard PivotTable, we can use the built in Group functionality to group dates by
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