Category: Excel

Appending Columns with Different Names

Will Thompson from the Power BI team threw out a question on Twitter today related to Appending Columns with Different Names: Let's say I have some CSVs coming in where the column names differ from file to file, but always

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PivotSleuth and Measure Tables

Last week I got an email from one of our readers, with some feedback related to how Monkey Tools’ PivotSleuth works with Measure tables in Power Pivot. Best practices is to set up a disconnected table to house DAX measures. 

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Monkey Tools is Here

We are super excited to announce that we’ve (at last) released the first version of our Monkey Tools software!  Ken has been working on this software on and off for the better part of 8 years now.  But after showing

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Monkey Tools

Monkey Tools Add-in Monkey Tools is an Excel add-in containing a set of tools to help you build better data models more quickly and using data modelling best practices. They also help you audit what has been done in your

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Unfill in Power Query

Recently I received a question on how to Unfill in Power Query.  In other words, we want the opposite of the Fill feature, which fills data into blank cells (cells that contain a null value.)  If we see repeating values,

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Remove Dynamic Number of Top Rows

Removing the top five rows from a data set is easy in Power Query, but what do you do when the number of rows changes?  There isn’t a built-in Remove Dynamic Number of Top Rows function.  In this post we’ll

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How do You Design Your Data Model?

On this blog, I showcase a lot of different techniques for manipulating and reshaping data.  For anyone that follows the blog, you already know this, and you know it's a pretty important topic to me.  But the thing we shouldn't

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