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September 24, 2020

Quickly Create Running Totals in Power Query

A running total (or cumulative sum) is when you add the previous value to the next, basically you're summing values

September 17, 2020

Excel Custom Number Format Conditions

Custom number format conditions allow you to specify a different format based on the size of a number. In this

September 3, 2020

Power Query Custom Functions

If you're familiar with using Excel functions (and of course you should be) then you'll know that a function typically

August 27, 2020

Import Data from a Picture to Excel Mobile

A new feature in the Excel mobile app (iPhone and Android) is the ability to take a photo of your

August 20, 2020

Display All Matches from Search in Userform ListBox

I've previously described how to use a form to search for a distinct value, like a unique ID. This time

August 13, 2020

Import Data from a PDF to Excel

Office 365/Microsoft 365 users can now import data from a PDF to Excel using Power Query*. It’s super handy for

August 11, 2020

Plan v Actual Excel Dashboard

Reporting on plan v actual variances can be a very dry topic and often the audience for these reports are

August 6, 2020

Connecting to an OAuth API Like PayPal With Power Query

My previous post on using Power Query to access API's looked at API's that required either basic or no authorization.

July 30, 2020

Excel PivotTable Profit and Loss

Creating an Excel PivotTable Profit and Loss statement is surprisingly easy. And because it’s a PivotTable you can team it

July 23, 2020

Getting Started with API’s in Power Query

An Application Programming Interface (API) allows a program to retrieve data from a system. A 'program' could be something written

July 16, 2020

Dynamically List Excel Sheet Names

Navigating workbooks with lots of sheets can be tedious. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to dynamically

July 9, 2020

Label Specific Excel Chart Axis Dates

When you have data that spans a long period of time that you want to plot in a chart, the

July 3, 2020

Animating Excel Charts

If you are going to use animation in your charts, you should do it to enhance the story your data

June 25, 2020

Excel Functions that Return References

Using a formula to return a reference to a range of cells allows us to generate a reference on the

June 18, 2020

Excel STOCKHISTORY Function

With the new Excel STOCKHISTORY function we can finally get historical price data for stocks, bonds, funds, crypto and foreign

5 Secret Features of the Excel INDEX Function

June 11, 2020

5 Excel INDEX Function Secrets

The Excel INDEX function is a treasure trove of functionality, but most of us only know one way to use

June 4, 2020

Dynamic Data Validation Lists in Userforms

Let's say we need to assign staff to work different shifts and no person can work both early and late

May 27, 2020

Show Report Filter Pages for Power Pivot PivotTables

If you are using a filter on a 'regular' pivot table (one that isn't using source data from Power Pivot),

May 13, 2020

Gather Data with Excel Forms

Excel Forms are super useful if you collate data manually, for example via email or PDF forms. Or even if

May 8, 2020

Charting Real Time Data in Excel

I've previously written about getting real time data (RTD) into Excel using Python. In this post I'm going to chart

April 30, 2020

Visio for Excel Free Add-in

Office 365 users now have access to the Visio for Excel free add-in enabling you to create Excel flow charts

April 20, 2020

Select Multiple Items from Drop Down (Data Validation) List

Data validation lists will only let you choose one item from the list. But what if we have a situation

April 9, 2020

Searchable Drop Down List in Excel

Creating this searchable drop down list in Excel is so easy I’m wondering why I never thought of it before.

April 2, 2020

Import Multiple Files Containing Multiple Sheets with Power Query

In this post we’re going to look at how you can import multiple files containing multiple sheets with Power Query,

March 25, 2020

Excel Project Management Dashboard

Managing projects or tasks can be improved with a visual representation of progress and milestones. Thankfully, an Excel project management

Excel Calendar (Date Picker) to Use in Worksheets and Userforms

March 18, 2020

Multi-Language Excel Calendar (Date Picker) for Worksheets and Userforms

I've written about using calendars/date pickers in userforms before but this one is particularly easy and flexible to use, even

March 11, 2020

Automating and Emailing Pivot Table Reports

Here's the scenario: I want to send different pages of my pivot table report to different email recipients. I can

March 5, 2020

20 Pro Excel Keyboard Shortcuts

This post contains 20 Excel keyboard shortcuts used by Excel pros. I’m not talking about CTRL+Z, and the like, these

February 26, 2020

Jitter in Excel Scatter Charts

If you use a scatter plot for a dataset that has discrete values in one dimension, for example your x-axis

February 20, 2020

Custom Excel Chart Label Positions

When you plot multiple series in a chart the labels can end up overlapping other data. A solution to this