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Explore the most popular and some of the lesser known features of Excel – PivotTables, PowerPivot, Power View, and GeoFlow with MrExcel as your guide!
- Start-to-finish personal training on Excel 2013: just watch and learn!
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These video lessons will ensure that you can harness the power of Excel faster and more easily than ever before! In 89 quick video lessons, Excel PivotTables, PowerPivot, Power View, and GeoFlow with MrExcel shows how to increase your productivity and optimize Excel's best tools and features. Expert Bill Jelen simplifies powerful features including Formatting, Calculations, Sort & Filter, DAX Calculated Fields, Troubleshooting, Animation and more! Truly harness the power built into Excel! Just watch: You’ll master high-powered skills at your own pace–and get specific answers and solutions immediately, whenever you need them! For anyone who wants to master Microsoft Excel 2013 fast–from novices to experienced power users.
About the Author:
Bill Jelen, Excel MVP and the host of MrExcel.com, has been using spreadsheets since 1985, and he launched the MrExcel.com website in 1998. Bill was a regular guest on "Call for Help with Leo Laporte" and has produced more than 1,200 episodes of his daily video podcast, "Learn Excel from MrExcel." He is the author of 30 books about Microsoft Excel and writes the monthly Excel column for Strategic Finance magazine. You will most frequently find Bill taking his show on the road, doing half-day Power Excel seminars wherever he can find a room full of accountants or Excellers. Before founding MrExcel.com, Jelen spent 12 years in the trenches working as a financial analyst for finance, marketing, accounting, and operations departments of a $500 million public company.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Introduction to Excel PivotTables, PowerPivot, Power View, and GeoFlow with MrExcel LiveLessons
Lesson 1: Basics
Learning objectives
Use a Pivot Table to Summarize Detailed Data
Your Manager Wants Your Report Changed
Add or Remove Fields from an Existing Pivot Table
Summarize Pivot Table Data by Three Fields
Why Does the Pivot Table Field List Dialog Keep Disappearing?
Move or Change Part of a Pivot Table
Update Data Behind a Pivot Table
Why Does This Look Different from Excel 2003? Return to the Classic Pivot Table Layout
Lesson 2: Formatting
Learning objectives
Compare Four Ways to Show Two Values Fields in a Pivot Table
Kill Compact View
Eliminate Blanks in the Outline Format of a Pivot Table
Suppress Grand Totals in a Pivot Table
Replace Blanks in a Pivot Table with Zeros
Specify a Number Format for a Pivot Table Field
Format Pivot Tables with the Gallery
Add a Format to Gallery
Selecting Parts for Formatting
Icon Set in a Pivot Table
Lesson 3: Calculations
Learning objectives
Create a Report That Shows Count, Min, Max, Average, Etc
Percent of Parent, Rank, Running Total In
Calculated Fields in a Pivot Table
Add a Calculated Item for Budget - Actuals
Instead of Using Calculated Items Group Text Fields
Present a Pivot Table in High-to-Low Order by Revenue
Lesson 4: Sort Filter
Learning objectives
Manually Re-sequence the Order of Data in a Pivot Table
Limit a Pivot Report to Show Just the Top 12 Customers
Filtering a Pivot Table
Add Visual Filters to a Pivot Table with Slicers
Timelines vs Multiple Slicers
Lesson 5: Features
Learning objectives
See Detail Behind One Number in a Pivot Table
Group Daily Dates by Month in a Pivot Table
Create a Year-over-Year Analysis
Stop GetPivotData from Appearing
Group by Week in a Pivot Table
Group Numbers to Create Frequency Chart
Grouping one pivot table groups all pivot tables; new Cache
Lesson 6: Uses
Learning objectives
Create a Unique List of Customers with a Pivot Table
Use a Pivot Table to Compare Two Lists
Fixing Customer Name problems Using a Pivot Table
Show Text Fields for a Pareto Chart
Lesson 7: Tips
Learning objectives
Base your pivot table on a Table When New Data Might Be Added
Show Yes/No As the Values in a Pivot Table
Create Perfectly Formatted Pivot Tables Using GETPIVOTDATA
Create a Worksheet for Every Customer Using Show Report Filter Pages
Controlling Multiple Pivot Tables with One Set of Slicers
Reduce Pivot Table Workbook Size by 50% Before Sending
Create a Pivot Table from Access Data
Create a chart from a pivot table with Pivot Charts
Lesson 8: Troubleshooting
Learning objectives
Compatibility between versions
Force Missing Months to Show in a Pivot Table
Whatever Happened to Multiple Consolidation Ranges in Pivot Tables?
Cleaning up bad data before creating a pivot table
Pivot Data Where the Source Data Has Dates Stretching Across the Columns
Lesson 9: PowerPivot
Learning objectives
Using the Data Model in Excel 2013 to Join Two Tables
Distinct Count in Excel 2013
True Top Five in Excel 2013
Using Named Sets for Asymmetric Reports
Getting PowerPivot
Load Data into PowerPivot
Define Relationships in the PowerPivot Window or Diagram View
Creating the Pivot Table - Compare Choices
Changing the Calculation from Sum Other Differences
Lesson 10: DAX Calculated Fields
Learning objectives
DAX Measures
Use DAX Measures to Calculate a Range
Use DAX Measures to un-apply a Filter
Using a Calendar Table for Time Intelligence
Time Intelligence Functions
Disconnected Parameter Tables with FILTER()
Actuals vs Budget
Using IF(VALUES in a Measure
Build Slicers on Lookup Tables
First Initial Slicer (and turning off cross-slicer filtering)
Convert the Pivot Table to Cube Formulas
Lesson 11: Power View
Learning objectives
Preparing your data for PowerView
Adding a Power View Worksheet
Adding a Dashboard Element as a Table
Converting Table to a Chart
Explicit and Implicit Slicers
Understanding the Filter Pane
Using Tile Boxes
Replicating Charts Using Multiples
Showing Data on a Map
Showing Images in Table or Card View
Formatting Power View
Animating a Scatter Chart over Time
Lesson 12: GeoFlow
Learning objectives
Adding data to GeoFlow
Flying through the map
Animating GeoFlow
Building a tour in GeoFlow
Summary
Summary of Excel PivotTables, PowerPivot, Power View, and GeoFlow with MrExcel LiveLessons