Make Power Pivot available in all versions of Excel
Previous title: "Make the Power BI Family - PowerPIvot + PowerQuery + PowerView and PowerMap available in all versions of Excel".
Sameer Bhide
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Hi folks,
We’re happy to report that Power Pivot is now in all current Windows editions of Excel, including Office 2019 (perpetual) and Office 365 (subscription).
In older versions of Excel (Excel 2013, Excel 2016) only certain Windows editions (Pro Plus and higher) include Power Pivot.
Thanks for helping us to make this a reality!
Vai
Excel Program Manager
257 comments
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GeneC
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While the user interface is different, the Excel 2016 subscription includes under Data-tab in the "Get & Transform Data" and the "Queries and Connections" section most of the capabilities. Check it out.
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Daniel
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+1 "I am looking into other versions of spreadsheets and not renewing my subscription. Feeling so ripped off!"
Please google, kill ms office
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Daniel
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Just suscribed to office 365 personal, no powerpivot, why god? why?
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Pedro
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Why, Microsoft? Why?
It doesnt make sense at all.Really disapointed...
Good that Qlik Sense Desktop is free, and I can use that at home to replace the part I would use Power Pivot.
As a BI professional, learning a different BI language just for my personal stuff is a pain, but would be good for the long run. -
phong
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I absolutely agree that 299$ of Office 2016 home and business should include Power Pivot, View and Map. If not, I should not buy this at the first place. Since in Thailand stores, they do not sale 2016 Professional +.
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Robert
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PowerPivot is an essential part of Excel and should always be included
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Anonymous
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We need PowerPivot to be in all versions of Excel
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Pauli S
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All Business versions at least should include PowerPivot.
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Ivan
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Hi, making it available for all versions you will just make free advertisement and create a demand for "big customers"
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Graham Coles
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After three hours of valiant effort, MS Tech Support just managed to downgrade me from Office 365 home and resurrect my 2013 Office Home installation and my Excel 2013 stand-alone version purchased solely to use Power Pivot back then. Fortunate that I purchased everything legitimately and online. Thank-you Tech Support, the problem does not lie with you!
I have just completed a project with a major US Multinational which allowed me to introduce PP to an international team of users who had never heard of the product. It was life-changing for many of these career Excel users who were buried in @Vlookups and @SumIfs, and could not begin to imagine that spreadsheets could handle multiple millions of rows of data in mere seconds.
The sad part was that no one had time to learn anything new as the company was totally lost in maintaining broken models and manually moving data from model to model. They didn't need Excel 2016, they didn't even need Excel 2010 as the skill levels were that low.
Dear Microsoft - we all want you to succeed with Power Pivot - but how will anyone learn this if in the office there is no time and at home or university there is no access? Isn't that at the core of why this product has failed to take off since the intro in 2010? Isn't that why you, sadly, can hardly even give it away in the form of Power BI Desktop?
I'm a believer. I've been in spreadsheets and macros for over 30 years - yes even Lotus 123 and the short-lived Lotus 123 R3. I have never seen anything which comes close to this functionality in the way it delivers on the promise of self-service BI, but unless you change the thinking in Marketing it will continue to fail. Please dont let it fail.
Come June 2018, I will dutifully line up with the millions to buy Excel 2019. Apparently I will also be buying Office 2019 Home as rumours have it that it will again only be possible to install a stand alone Excel 2019 on top of the Office 2019 Home release. I don't like it, I think you can do better, I think you have to do better for current and future users of Office. I know - I can buy the Office 365 ProPlus, but this is a very expensive option as a learning platform or for my daughter to use for her primary school homework. I would love to continue my subscription to Office 365 Home, but it is becoming ever harder to justify the 'convenience' of this platform.
Like the banks in 2008... Office is too big to fail...or is it?
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Carrie
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I am looking into other versions of spreadsheets and not renewing my subscription. Feeling so ripped off!
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Carrie
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No Power Pivot in 365 Home? Not cool MS. Not cool. I'm not going to pay extra for the upgrade, BUT I just might learn to settle for Apple's Numbers or Google's sheets. At least they're free! You know, consumers get awfully tired of feeling ripped off.
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Anonymous
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I am really angry that the features I need to learn to hold a job are not available with my version of Excel. Powerpivot, PowerQuery are much needed tools. I cannot afford to buy another version of Excel exclusively. You all should be ashamed of yourselves
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Helio
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Very disappointing - why on earth would you remove the power of PowerPivot from an updated version of Excel??
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Anonymous
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Really having second thoughts about renewing my Office 365 subscription. What is the point if we do not even have features already present in previous versions!!
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kcwilsonii
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D flowers.. Access is still in Office 365
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D Flowers
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Access was completely dumped from Office 2016/365. That was bad enough. Now we want to cripple Excel by removing PowerPivot. I really don't understand the logic. We have subscribed Office starting with the 2013 version. It had everything we needed. Now, with 2016/365 MS starts taking things away. We had to purchase standalone copies of Access. I guess we will have to do the same with Excel. Very misleading when we are told that we purchased a "full featured" product.
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Anonymous
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Very disappointing - why on earth would you remove the power of PowerPivot from an updated version of Excel??
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Kathryn
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Could you include PowerPivot and analytics features with all subscriptions and products that include Excel? It's incredibly frustrating to suddenly realize you don't have the right version when you had no idea there would be a difference between Excel for ProPlus and Excel for Business Premium. I've now wasted about 2 hours of time (both mine and various support personnel), and even customer support didn't understand - they kept telling me I needed Excel 2016. Umm.. I have that. Just not the right one, apparently. Is restricting this add-in really benefiting the bottom line enough to justify the confusion?
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kcwilsonii
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I had to download SQL Server Developer to load data.. just stupid