Tag: excel

Task Tracking with Power Query

Did you know Power Query can be used as a task tracking tool? This might sound quite unusual but the method described here has been used for solving a real business case. The example I will use is rather simplified

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Cache Shared Nodes Fix is Live

At long last, we have confirmation that the Cache Shared Nodes Fix is live in Excel.  If you're not familiar with this issue, it's one of the most important changes implemented in Power Query in quite some time.  You can

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Power Query Recipes Now Available

As you may have heard, we have been working on a set of helpful Power Query Recipes for Excel and Power BI and are excited to announce that they are now officially available! Are our Power Query Recipes for you?

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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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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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