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Microsoft are massively investing in Excel Online and as a result there are some features that are now better than they are in the desktop version of Excel. The great news is that anyone can use Excel Online for free. You don’t need an Excel license or 365 membership! Watch the Video Download Workbook Enter …
When you hover your mouse over an element in a visual, like a column in a clustered column chart, a tooltip like this appears. The mouse is over the first orange column so the tooltip is showing the country, year, and sale total for that column. The country could be removed as you can tell …
Embedding Excel dashboards in a web page is a great way to securely share reports. All you need to do is save your file on OneDrive or SharePoint and get the embed code. There are different approaches required depending on whether you have OneDrive Personal, or OneDrive for Business or SharePoint. The latter two offer …
Conditional formatting in Power BI visuals allows you to draw attention to, or highlight, data in text or numeric fields using color, icons or data bars. You can also assign URL's to fields to make them clickable and load web pages. Let's look at how to apply all of these different types of conditional formatting. …
I've used a range of techniques to build the interactive Excel student performance dashboard below, which are covered in the video and there are links to further tutorials beyond. Building dashboards for student data requires different techniques to typical Excel dashboards because there is a lot of data to fit into a relatively small space. …
When you import data to Power Query, it's not unusual to end up with a table containing blank rows and columns, like this There are a few ways to get rid of these 'blank' rows and columns, some better than others. Watch the Video Download Example Excel Workbook Enter your email address below to download …
You may have data that is contained in lists or records, or even lists inside records, or records inside lists. I've seen nested data like this come from API's or Sharepoint amongst other sources. In such cases you may want to extract only certain bits of data from the list(s) or record(s) and this blog …
It’s been a long wait, but we finally have some exciting new Excel text functions that are going to make life so much easier. In this tutorial I’m going to focus on TEXTAFTER, TEXTBEFORE and most exciting, TEXTSPLIT. The first two functions are fairly self-explanatory, and so is TEXTSPLIT to a degree. However, in this …
When working with small multiple charts or panel charts as they’re also known, it’s handy to be able to switch the chart axes between the same axis for each chart and their own axis. Using the same axis enables you to compare the data between the charts because they all use the same scale. Whereas …
Writing DAX is hard enough. If there were some way to make the experience a little easier wouldn't that be great? To that end, below is a list of keyboard shortcuts you can use in the Power BI Desktop DAX Editor. Watch the Video To See What These Shortcuts Do Download DAX Editor Shortcuts PDF …
