Building the Model The PowerPivot workflow starts on the client. With the add-in installed, a PowerPivot tab is added to the Excel Ribbon interface.

In Excel 2010, there is a subtle way to hook all four pivot tables up to the same set of slicers. Thus, the VP of Sales selects from the slicers and all four pivot tables update at once.

Slicers are a good way to filter data in a Microsoft Excel PivotTable or PivotChart, but they take up a bit of room. By moving the buttons to the chart, you free room for more visuals.

You can add and use Slicers to select items to filter a PivotTable in a more visual way. If you have Excel 2010, you can use the new Slicers tool to make your PivotTable even easier to work with.

One data modeling option within Data Explorer requires the PowerPivot add-on, which in Office 2013 is only available for Office Professional Plus, Office 365 ProPlus or Office 365 Enterprise ...

Microsoft’s PowerPivot add-in for its forthcoming Excel 2010 spreadsheet enables users to work with much larger sets of data than is possible with Excel alone.

Excel Slicers are easy to use visual controls added to Excel that allows to quickly and easily filter data in an interactive way by selecting values from a list.