Excel
What is Microsoft Excel?
Microsoft Excel is the industry leading spreadsheet program, a powerful data visualization and analysis tool.
Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/excel
Excel training and resources
PivotTables
You can use a PivotTable to summarize, analyze, explore, and present summary data. PivotCharts complement PivotTables by adding visualizations to the summary data in a PivotTable, and allow you to easily see comparisons, patterns, and trends. Both PivotTables and PivotCharts enable you to make informed decisions about critical data in your enterprise. You can also connect to external data sources such as SQL Server tables, SQL Server Analysis Services cubes, Azure Marketplace, Office Data Connection (.odc) files, XML files, Access databases, and text files to create PivotTables, or use existing PivotTables to create new tables.
Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/overview-of-pivottables-and-pivotcharts-527c8fa3-02c0-445a-a2db-7794676bce96
- Overview of PivotTables and PivotCharts
- Create a PivotTable to analyze worksheet data
- Create a PivotChart
- Use PivotTables and other business intelligence tools to analyze your data
Power Query and Power Pivot
Power Query (Get & Transform) and Power Pivot complement each other. Power Query is the recommended experience for importing data. Power Pivot is great for modeling the data you’ve imported. Use both to shape your data in Excel so you can explore and visualize it in PivotTables, PivotCharts, and Power BI.
Source: How Power Query and Power Pivot work together
In short, with Power Query you get your data into Excel, either in worksheets or the Excel Data Model. With Power Pivot, you add richness to that Data Model.
- What is Power Query? (Docs)
- Power Query documentation (Docs)
- About Power Query in Excel
- Create a Data Model in Excel
- How Power Query and Power Pivot work together
- Power Pivot: Powerful data analysis and data modeling in Excel
- Power Pivot – Overview and Learning
- Get started with Power Pivot in Microsoft Excel
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Noteworthy in Excel
- What’s New in Excel for the web (December 2021)
- Introducing Money in Excel, an easier way to manage your finances
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See also
- Available chart types in Office
- Data Visualization with Excel and Power BI
- Excel certifications
- Excel Community Feedback (preview)
- Excel functions (alphabetical)
- Excel Glossary
- Excel roadmap
- Excel specifications and limits
- Get Office mobile for your phone
- Microsoft Community
- Microsoft templates
- Number format codes
- Replay your ink strokes in Office
- What is data modeling?
- What’s New: Changes made to Excel functions
- What’s new in Excel 2021 for Windows
- What’s new in Excel for Microsoft 365
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