

Once you click OK, the PivotTable Fields List will appear. Then select the location of the PivotTable (New worksheet or Existing worksheet) and click OK. Once the Data Model is ready, you can create the PivotTable by clicking on the PivotTable button on the Home Tab of the Power Pivot Window. In this way, you don’t have to open the Power Pivot window to modify the Data Model since the Year would already be part of the source data. Important: Another way of adding the Year column is to do it in Power Query. The years will be calculated after pressing Enter. Then on the first row of the new column type the formula ‘=YEAR()’ and press enter.

To add a column, go to the rightmost column and double-click the header, then type the desired name. If the Power Pivot tab is not visible follow the instructions on this link to enable it.įor this example, I’ll add a column called Year to calculate the year of the date column. To Open Power Pivot, go to the Power Pivot tab and click on Manage. To make modifications to the Data Model, such as adding other columns, you can open the Power Pivot window. On the ‘Load To’ dialog box, select ‘Only Create Connection’, then click on the checkbox ‘Add this data to the Data Model’ and click on Load.Īfter you click Load, you’ll be able to use the data within Power Pivot. Step 3: Load the data into the Power Pivot Data Model.Īfter removing the headers, you just need to load the data into the Power Pivot Data Model. For example, go to the ‘Region’ column and setup a filter to exclude the word ‘Region’. For this you can go to any of the columns and remove the column name from the options.

The files will be imported with headers, so you must remove them. Step 2: Remove the headers from each file Once the data is imported it will look like this: Then expand the content by clicking on the double arrow button Once you click OK, press Edit on the next window. Go to Data New Query From File From FolderĬlick on ‘Browse’ and browse for the folder that contains the files, then click OK.Īnother option (the one I generally use), is to copy the path of the folder and paste it on the folder path box. Step 1: Import the data into Excel using Power Query. If you have Excel 2010/2013, go to the Power Query tab instead of the Data tab. Note: I’ll use Excel 2016, however, the steps are the same on previous Excel versions. Therefore, the first step is to import and append the information from these files.
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If you don’t have Power Query on your computer, you can download it from here: Power Query Download.Īs mentioned before, the data are contained in 20 text files. If you want to follow along, please download the files from this link.

The desired goal is to be able to analyze the sales performance by year and region. Power Query is also known as ‘Get and Transform’ in Excel 2016.įor this post I’ll be using sales records with the following fields: Region, Product, Date, and Sales. To accomplish this, I’ll use two Excel tools: Power Pivot and Power Query. To make things more interesting, I’ll import data from 20 different text files (.csv) with 2.5 million records each. In this post I’ll debunk this myth by creating a PivotTable from 50 million records in Excel. Actually, the right myth should be that you can’t use more than 1,048,576 rows, since this is the number of rows on each sheet but even this one is false. A common myth I hear very frequently is that you can’t work with more than 1 million records in Excel.
