The Excel PivotPower add-in on the Contextures website has been updated. The PivotPower add-in makes it easier to change the summary functions in a pivot table, or add protection, and has several other helpful commands. After you install the add-in, it shows up as a drop down list on the Excel Ribbon’s Add-Ins tab. In [...]

If you love the new PowerPivot add-in for Excel 2010, you can enter the latest contest on the PowerPivotPro blog. Show off your efficient PowerPivot techniques, and win one of the two top prizes — a 1 year MSDN subscription. Send in your sample workbooks, with charts and slicers and cross-filtering enabled. Impress Rob with [...]

The team at PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel 2010 created the Excelerators Quiz, where you can test your Excel skills. To make the challenge more exciting, they’re sponsoring a giveaway on the Contextures blog (for USA residents only). The blog giveaway prize has a total value of over $250, and will include a Dell ST2310 23 [...]

Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010 is a data analysis add-in for Excel 2010, and is part of the Office 2010 Beta. You can test PowerPivot in the hands-on Virtual Lab, or in the Office 2010 Beta, if you’ve downloaded that. That’s where I tested PowerPivot last weekend, and described the experience in my Contextures blog [...]