This post on changing a single file query to a From Folder query is a guest article by John MacDougall, a Microsoft Excel MVP from Canada and owner of HowToExcel.org. Recently, I had to import a large-ish CSV file at
Last week I posted a Top X with Ties Challenge to see how our readers would approach this problem using Power Query in Excel or Power BI. I'm really glad I did this, and am thinking that I need to
Please note: the submission period for the Top x with Ties Challenge is now closed. You can check out the follow-up post where the results are summarized here. Yesterday I was working on a data set, and needed to work
In a comment on a previous post, a reader asked how you return a specific day of the next month from any given date. In other words, I've got a date of March 5 and I want to use Power
One of the big issues when distributing Power BI files locally is that the file paths get hard coded, and there is no way to make the path dynamic. This is very frustrating as any user who has a different
This is a cool example of how to Extract Data Based on the Previous Row, which came up as a viewer's question inside our Power Query Academy. Let's look at how we solved it… What Kind of Data Needs This
I was playing around with a scenario this morning where I was adding try results together in order to count how many columns were filled with information. What I needed to do kind of surprised me a little bit. The
This post is a guest article from Marcus Croucher, a finance professional based in Auckland, New Zealand. Marcus instantly fell in love with Power Query after seeing how it can easily transform data in ways Excel finds difficult, and how
Ages ago I posted an article on unpivoting subcategories using Power Query. The technique is still valid and, in fact, it’s one that I still teach using the same data set. I’ve been able to use it on data with
One of the common questions I get in live courses, blog comments and forum posts is a variant of, “How do I format my data in Power Query or Power BI?” The short answer is that you don’t, but the
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