Category: Excel

Un-Pivoting Data in Power Query

I was fooling around with the latest build of Power Query (for Excel 2010/2013), and I’ve got to say that I’m actually really impressed with this piece. I think the user experience still needs a bit of work, but once

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Making Pivot Table Hyperlinks Clickable

If you’ve ever built a PivotTable that contains hyperlinks, you’ll notice that clicking the hyperlinks doesn’t do anything. This can be a bit frustrating as the reason you put that field on the Pivot in the first place is that

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Excel Power Map Sample

Yesterday, Microsoft released a preview of Power Map; a geo-spatial mapping Excel add-in, formerly know as GeoFlow.  It’s a pretty cool add-in that allows you to plot data based on geographic identifiers (longitude, latitude, country name, town names, postal codes,

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Giving PowerPivot a Keyboard Shortcut

When I was down at Microsoft for the MVP Summit, I suggested that, as the “other most powerful part of Excel” that PowerPivot, like the Visual Basic Editor, should be given it’s own keyboard shortcut.  Since Alt + F12 is

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Temperature Forecast Chart

Some of the really cool charts that we can build in Excel involve the trick of combining multiple chart types together to make them happen. In this article, we’ll build one of those; a temperature chart that not only shows

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VLOOKUP for Pictures

Something that can be very handy when you’re building a dashboard is to return a certain picture depending on a condition. We can use VLOOKUP to look up data in a table and return the corresponding value from a different

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