Excel 2019 Bible

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36

Working Directly with the

Internal Data Model

IN THIS CHAPTER

Directly feeding the internal data model

Managing relationships in the internal data model

Removing tables from the internal data model

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p until now, you used the Power Pivot Ribbon interface to work with the internal data model.

As you will discover in this chapter, however, you can use a combination of PivotTables and

Excel data connections to interact directly with the internal data model—without the Power

Pivot Ribbon interface.

Most of the examples in this chapter are available on this book’s website at http://www.wiley.com/go/

excel2019bible. The filename is Internal Data Model.xlsx.

Directly Feeding the Internal Data Model

Imagine that you have the Transactions table shown in Figure 36.1. On another worksheet, you

have an Employees table (see Figure 36.2) that contains information about the employee.

FIGURE 36.1

This table shows transactions by employee number.

Excel® 2019 Bible, First Edition. Michael Alexander, Dick Kusleika and John Walkenbach.
© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Published 2019 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.