I recently got asked the question: Does PowerPivot have any data access APIs? Is there any way to to programmatically access the data store?   I figured that a lot of people will eventually ask this question (heck, that’s what I had asked when I had first heard about PowerPivot).  The answer as of 2010 is: Right now, there is no supported way to access the data store within Excel as all PowerPivot for Excel APIs are private.  Saying this, the data store backup is stored within Excel itself as per the posting For Excel PowerPivot, the database is IN…