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Bernard Obeng Boateng
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Bernard Obeng Boateng is a Microsoft Excel MVP, Microsoft Certified Trainer, with over 10 years work experience in Banking, Insurance and Business Development. He is founder of Finex Skills Hub an approved Training Provider of the Financial Modeling Institute, Canada. Finex Skills Hub runs the Finex Project in Ghana, a pro bono student training outreach program for students in Data Analytics and Financial Modeling. Bernard also provides consultancy services for SMEs (start-ups and existing) in Financial Management, Business Planning and Research. He has an active audience online with about 17,000 followers on his LinkedIn Account. where he shares tips and tricks on Microsoft Excel and other Office Apps.
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Adding queries/tables to your data model

In Chapter 3, we concluded our extract, transform, and load (ETL) process by loading our queries into the data model.

Our transformed queries are now stored inside our Excel workbook. To find out where the queries are, you can go to Data | Queries & Connections. This will open the Queries pane to your right, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.1 – How to display the Queries pane in Microsoft Excel

Figure 4.1 – How to display the Queries pane in Microsoft Excel

Our queries are also stored in the data model. To access the data model, you can go to Data | Data Tools | Go to the Power Pivot Window.

Figure 4.2 – Enabling the Power Pivot tab

Figure 4.2 – Enabling the Power Pivot tab

If you are using Power Pivot for the first time, you will get a message box prompting you to enable Power Pivot. After a few seconds, you should see the Power Pivot tab in your command tabs. You can now open the Power Pivot window by clicking the green cube icon in the Data Tools group...

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Bernard Obeng Boateng

Bernard Obeng Boateng is a Microsoft Excel MVP, Microsoft Certified Trainer, with over 10 years work experience in Banking, Insurance and Business Development. He is founder of Finex Skills Hub an approved Training Provider of the Financial Modeling Institute, Canada. Finex Skills Hub runs the Finex Project in Ghana, a pro bono student training outreach program for students in Data Analytics and Financial Modeling. Bernard also provides consultancy services for SMEs (start-ups and existing) in Financial Management, Business Planning and Research. He has an active audience online with about 17,000 followers on his LinkedIn Account. where he shares tips and tricks on Microsoft Excel and other Office Apps.
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