Category: Excel

Power Query Challenge 3 Results

Wow… 46 submissions for Power Query Challenge 3!  Crazy stuff. So many that I haven't even had time to read them all yet! Due to the overwhelming responses, here's how I'm going to handle this: Show you how I approached

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Power Query Challenge 3

**Please note that the challenge is now closed, so we are no longer accepting submissions. However, you are still welcome to try it out on your own. I've got a lot of feedback that you enjoy the Power Query Challenge

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Power Query Challenge #2 Results

What an overwhelming response to Power Query Challenge #2!  We had 40 submissions, and some with multiple entries in a single submission.  Plainly you all enjoyed this! Naturally, there were a couple of submissions that involved custom functions, and a

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Power Query Challenge #2

I'm at the Microsoft Business Application Summit this week, so I thought I'd post another Power Query challenge, especially since our last one was so successful. For this Power Query challenge … Our business challenge here is that we are

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Power Pivot eBook Coming Soon

It's been a long time coming, but we are putting the finishing touches on the third installment of our free 'DIY BI' series. Consequently, we are excited to announce that the Power Pivot eBook will be officially released on Tuesday,

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Number Rows by Group Using Power Query

After one of my previous sorting posts, Devin asked if we can number rows by group.  Actually, that's a paraphrase… what he really asked was: Any thoughts on how to produce something like a ROW_NUMBER function with PARTITION from T-SQL?

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Trick to Protect Excel Tables

Slobodan emailed me to describe a trick to protect Excel tables that he is using to drive data validation lists.  The data validation lists are sourced from tables loaded via Power Query, and leverage a little hack to hide them

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Ranking Method Choices in Power Query

My recent post on showing the Top X with Ties inspired a discussion on ranking methods.  Where I was looking to rank using what I now know as a standard competition rank, Daniil chose to use a dense ranking method

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