Category: Excel

Slicers For Value Fields

Earlier this week I received an email asking for help with a Power Pivot model.  The issue was that the individual had built a model, and wanted to add slicers for value fields.  In other words, they’d built the DAX

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Transpose Stacked Tables

For the first post of the new year, I thought I’d tackle an interesting problem; how to Transpose Stacked Tables in Power Query.  What’s do I mean by Stacked Tables?  It’s when your data looks like this: Notice that we’ve

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Treat Consecutive Delimiters As One

A couple of weeks back, I received a comment on my Force Power Query to Import as a Text File blog post.  Rudi mentioned that he’d really like to see a method that would let us Treat Consecutive Delimiters as One; something

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Making Transformations Re-Usable

We're back with post two of Miguel's week.  This time, he is going to take his previous solution and show us how versatile Power Query can be, leveraging code he's already written and Making Transformations Re-Usable. Have at it, Miguel! Making Transformations Re-Usable In

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Transforming Data with Power Query

This week we've got a guest post from Miguel Escobar, who is going to tell us why transforming data with Power Query is his first preference versus other tools and methods.  In fact, this is part 1 of 2, and

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Combine Multiple Worksheets Using Power Query

In last week’s post we looked at how to combine multiple files together using Power Query.  This week we’re going to stay within the same workbook, and combine multiple worksheets using Power Query. Background Scenario Let’s consider a case where

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Merge Multiple Files With Properties

This post illustrates a cool technique that I learned at the MVP summit last week, allowing us to use Power Query to merge multiple files with properties from the file in the output.  A specific example of where this is useful is

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Name Columns During a Merge

The timing for the release of the October Power Query update couldn’t really have been much better for me, especially since it’s got a cool new feature in that you can now name columns during a merge.  Why is this

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