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Introduction - VideoPower Pivot for Excel is a powerful data analysis add-in that will let you work with millions of rows of data within the familiar Excel environment. To download the free add-in, go to the Power Pivot page on the Microsoft website. This video shows the steps for combining data from multiple tables in Power Pivot, and there are written steps below the video. |
Pivot Table from Multiple FilesInstead of a single table, you can use Power Pivot to create a pivot table from multiple Excel workbooks or worksheets, by using the Primary and Foreign keys to join the tables. For example, there could be a 'ProductID' field in an Orders table and a PriceList table. Occasionally you might want to create a pivot table from files where you can't use keys to join the tables. Maybe you have workbooks for different years' sales data, or budget data from several departments. In this example, we'll combine data from two Excel files. The files have different data, but an identical structure -- sales data for the East and West regions. In this case, we can't use a key to connect the tables; instead, we want to create one combined table from all the data. The following technique allows you to import more than a million records from Excel, despite the fact that one worksheet can only contain up to 1,048,576 rows. Thanks to Excel MVP, Kirill Lapin, for sharing this very helpful tip with us. You can see more of Kirill's work in the Contextures blog posts on Combining Data from Two Excel Files in a Pivot Table. |
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