Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Albert Einstein)

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Power Pivot for Excel 2010

Power Pivot is delivered with Excel 2013. This is workaround to install it for Excel 2010.



Requirements:

Download Power Pivot from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29074

Run MSI installer as administrator.
Upon succesful installation, open Excel 2010. The PowerPivot tab should appear on the Excel ribbon.


An example to set relationship between 2 worksheets.
  • Go to first worksheet, select your table's range. 
  • In the PowerPivot tab, run"Create Linked Table".
  • Repeat for the second worksheet. 
  • In the PowerPivot window, tab Design, click on "Create relationship". 
  • Select "from" table and its column, then "related lookup" table and its column. The two columns, of course, must have relationship (one-to-one, one-to-many). Do create. 
  • Now, in the Excel window, in tab PowerPivot, from one of the worksheet, run "PivotTable | Insert PivotTable". 
  • Select New worksheet. (or existing, if there exist one already).
We should see that the two related tables are now in the PowerPivot Field list.


Enjoy the power of PowerPivot!
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Notes:
 For Windows 64 bit with Office 32 bit, there may be problem with Power Pivot tab doesn't appear.
In this case, try to install "Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office runtime".
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