If you create a PowerPivot file and send it to another person who doesn’t have PowerPivot loaded, can they open the file?
The simple answer is yes, but there are some aspects of PowerPivot that you will not be able to do. In particular you will not have access to the data in PowerPivot and will only be able to work in the Excel portion of the pivot tables.
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