Another new button on the Home tab is the Sort By Column button, which opens the dialog box shown in Figure 9-15. You can now control the sorting of data in one column by the related values in another column in the same table.
FIGURE 9-15 Sort By Column dialog box
The Design tab, shown in Figure 9-16, now includes the Freeze and Width buttons in the Columns group to help you manage the interface as you review the data in the PowerPivot model. These buttons are found on the Home tab in the previous release of the PowerPivot for Excel add-in.
FIGURE 9-16 Design tab on the ribbon in the PowerPivot window
Notice also the new Mark As Date Table button on the Design tab. Open the table containing dates, and click this button. A dialog box displays to prompt you for a column in the table that contains unique datetime values. Then you can create DAX expressions that use time intelligence functions and get correct results without performing all the steps necessary in the previous version of PowerPivot for Excel. You can select an advanced date filter as a row or column filter after you add a date column to a pivot table, as shown in Figure 9-17.
CHAPTER 9 Analysis Services and PowerPivot
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