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This will automatically add this field to the values area of the PivotTable and aggregate the values in the column in the PivotTable by using a SUM: I now open the Invoice table and select the RevenueAmount field. This creates a PivotTable with three tables in the Field list:

Select Insert, PivotTable and selecting the Data Model as the connection. To create my first PivotTable on top of this data I can get started immediately as Power Query already added my tables to the Data Model. I imported invoice, date and a geography tables. In this blog post we will take a look how to do analytics on top of some sales data that I loaded into the Data Model using Power Query. In many cases this is enough to get started with your first Excel PivotTable.

All these methods end up with the same result: one or more tables in the Data Model. Besides Power Query there are several other ways to add data to the Data Model, you can use Excel’s get external data features or even directly import in Power Pivot. To load the data into the Excel Data Model you have three different methods, to load any table from Power Query into the Data Model you can select “Load to Data Model” and this will bring the data into the model. It allows you to create analytics and visualizations using multiple tables without writing a single VLOOKUP, load data that has more than 1.000.000 rows and add advanced business logic to your solution with Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) formulas. Loading data into the Excel Data Model allows you to use data in a way previously impossible in Excel. In order for us to do this we need to load the data into the Excel Data Model. In this blog post we will take that data and prepare it for analyzing and visualizing in Excel. In our previous blog posts we explored how to bring data into Excel through Power Query ( Part I and Part II). Using this functionality, any column can be sorted by any other column within the table.Welcome back to our Getting Started with Excel and Power BI Series. Now you can add the Slicer of Month Name and it will be sorted by natural order instead on alphabet. Here, sort column is MonthName and By column is MonthOfYear. In this, select the Column to be sorted and sorted by. Now select the column Month Name, under sort and filter section of Home tab. Using the CodeĪssuming you have Date table with the following columns:

One such tip is explained well in MSDN blog here.īut with Excel 2013, there is no need to have such workarounds. You can also find some workarounds to sort Month in natural order for slicer as well. There are a number of blogs that show how to sort the Month in natural order in Pivot table. While creating a Power Pivot based report, i.e., Pivot table or Pivot chart, using Month slicer is a very common requirement.