Getting Great Results with Excel Pivot Tables, PowerQuery and PowerPivot

Get more out of your data with step-by-step tutorials for the Excel features you need to know.

Excel remains the most popular tool for organising and analysing data, and today's professionals are expected to have a high degree of fluency with it. Complex Excel tools such as Pivot Tables, PowerQuery, and PowerPivot can help you manage and report on data the way you need to. Getting Great Results with Excel Pivot Tables, PowerQuery and PowerPivot offers a fresh look at how these tools can help you. Author and Microsoft Certified Trainer Thomas Fragale breaks down the topics into easy-to-use steps and screenshots, so you can put your advanced Excel skills into practice right away.

Using Pivot Tables, PowerQuery, and PowerPivot, you can import, sort, transform, summarise, and present your data, all without needing to be a programmer. This book takes the technical jargon out of using these features, so you can perform your job more efficiently, bring value to your teams, and advance your career. The plain-English instructions inside will help anyone learn to get quick, meaningful results from their data, without having a degree in computing.

• Get easy-to-understand walkthroughs for analysing data and creating dashboards in Microsoft Excel.
• Learn how to organise data in Excel and use advanced features to find patterns and insights.
• Summarise any kind of data faster and easier, leaving you more time for other tasks.
• Turn raw numbers into new knowledge, reports, and charts that inform coworkers and customers.

This book is ideal for anyone with vast amounts of raw data needing to make sense of it. Managers, salespeople, finance professionals, and marketers—along with anyone else dealing with large amounts of data—will appreciate this quick and easy guide to Pivot Tables, PowerQuery, and PowerPivot.