Category: Excel

Calculate Start and End Dates

I got an email from a reader this morning who asked how to calculate start and end dates for a given employee when they have had multiple terms of employment. Since it's been a while since we've had a technical

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Combine Excel Files

If you've wanted to use Power Query to combine Excel files with a single click - like you could for TXT and CSV files - the feature is finally here*.  The Combine Binaries feature has been re-written (as I discussed

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New Combine Binaries Experience

One of the updates in the latest Excel 2016 Insider preview build is a new Combine Binaries experience for Power Query.  This is both good and bad, and in this post we'll take a detailed look at both sides before

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Power Query Dependencies Viewer

The November 2016 update is now out and it finally brings a way to view the Power Query dependencies viewer.  While it’s been out in Power BI Desktop for a while, (as Matt posted about a while ago,) this is

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Extract Data from a Mixed Column

More and more I’m seeing examples where people are trying to extract data from a mixed column.  In other words, they have two data types in a single column, but need to find a way to extract one from the

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Using Aggregate to Count Visible Rows

In this post I’m going to show one of my favourite financial modeling tricks: how to use Aggregate to Count Visible Rows. Background Often, when I’m building models in Excel, I like to group key assumptions at the top of

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Get Data From OneDrive for Business

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted a technical blog post, and I need to get back to it, so here goes.  This is going to be a five part post on how to Get Data From OneDrive for Business, (using

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