Category: Power Pivot

Slicers For Value Fields

Earlier this week I received an email asking for help with a Power Pivot model.  The issue was that the individual had built a model, and wanted to add slicers for value fields.  In other words, they’d built the DAX

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PowerXL Course Live in Victoria, BC

We are very excited to announce that we will be hosting an "Introduction to Power Excel" session in Victoria, BC on June 6, 2014. PowerPivot is revolutionizing the way that we look at data inside Microsoft Excel. Allowing us to

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PowerPivot Calendar Survey

Hi everyone, I’m doing a quick survey on what fields/formats people include in their PowerPivot calendar tables.  The info will be used so that I can include the most common formats in a Power Query script that I’m developing. If

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From TXT files to BI solution

Several years ago, when Power Pivot first hit the scene, I was talking to a buddy of mine about it. The conversation went something like this: My Friend: “Ken, I’d love to use PowerPivot, but you don’t understand the database

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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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