What is Power Pivot ?
What are the benefits of using Power Pivot ?
How to enable the Power Pivot add-in
The Power Pivot Window

Importing Your Data and the Data Model

How to import data into the PowerPivot Data Model.
Importing Data from a variety of Data Sources
Working with Data Connections
Refreshing Data

Creating the Power Pivot Data Model

How to create relationships between tables in the PowerPivot Data Model.
Understanding One-to Many Relationships

Excel Analysis Tables

What is an Excel Analysis Table?
Using Slicers to filter data in the Table
Why Excel Tables are important to Power Pivot
Adding Linked Tables to the Data Model

Analysing Data using a Pivot Table

Understanding Compact Layout
Changing the Layout
Using the in-situ filters
Grouping data for ad-hoc subtotals
Grouping date columns into years, months

Creating PivotTables with PowerPivot

How to create a PivotTable with PowerPivot data
How to use the Field list with the Data Model
What is different in a PowerPivot Pivot Table
How Drill-down differs in PowerPivot.
Creating a Flattened Pivot Table to analyse combinations of unique data.

Working with Dates in Power Pivot

How to analyse by Year, Quarter, Month etc.
Why a Date Table (Calendar Table) is required
Generating & Marking as a Date Table.

Using Slicers to Filter Data

How to filer data using Slicers
Connecting Slicers to multiple Tables

Using Pivot Charts and Dashboards

What is different about PowerPivot Charts
Connecting Slicers to Pivot Charts
Creating “Dashboards”.

Creating Simple Calculated Columns

How to create a Calculated Column
Looking up values from related tables
What is a Calculated Field
How to Add a Calculated Field to a PowerPivot PivotTable
What are PowerPivot Sets?