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RE: How can I get a list of all the tables and fields in a database?

Hi Chris, Maybe the Table.Schema function will help as described here: Mynda

8 years ago
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RE: Power Query how to select a Tab while using "from folder"

Great question, Puran. 1. At the 'Combine Files' dialog box select any item from the list, then select the folder icon above. The right-hand pane s...

8 years ago
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RE: New User Excel 2016 question

Hi Rick, Thanks for your understanding. For others reading this thread, please note: all versions of Excel from 2010 onward have Power Query, in...

8 years ago
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RE: Map Chart not recognising the country

Hi Brad, Looks like they changed the way Power BI handles the appended state, country fields. Change the Data Category to 'Place' and that should f...

8 years ago
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RE: Map Chart not recognising the country

Hi Brad, Have you set the data categories in the modelling tab to 'Country' and 'State'? Mynda

8 years ago
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RE: New User Excel 2016 question

Hi Rick, Thanks for taking the time to document the examples where there are differences. First let me explain what we're dealing with in regard to...

8 years ago
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RE: Excel 2016 Map: There was a problem getting the information for your map chart.

Glad you have a workaround. Perhaps you're not logged in to Excel at home and this is required for it to connect to the internet. I'm not sure to be h...

8 years ago
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RE: Conceptually importing a pivot table into the PowerPivot Data Model

Great to hear you've got a good enough grounding now to continue yourself. To help with your understanding of some concepts; I cover the grouping i...

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RE: 2016 Existing Connection button

Hi Shannon, In the Power Pivot window it's on the Home tab in the 'Get External Data' group (second icon from the left in your screenshot, which sh...

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RE: New User Excel 2016 question

Hi Rick, Office 365 automatically updates, although there are different 'channels' that update at different paces. For the most part what you see i...

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RE: Excel 2016 Map: There was a problem getting the information for your map chart.

Hi Matthias, It sounds like you weren't connected to the internet when you inserted the map chart. It requires an internet connection so that Bing ...

8 years ago
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RE: Conceptually importing a pivot table into the PowerPivot Data Model

Hi Cory, Thanks for the mock up file. It helped a lot. You can do most of this in Power Query. Showing the balancing credit for Telephone and Compu...

8 years ago
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RE: Multiply amounts in two separate queries

Hi Mardi, The most efficent way is to do this with a measure in Power Pivot where the table containing the times is called CWR_Time and the Dim tab...

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RE: Power Query and Slicers

🙂 it's always most rewarding when you figure things out yourself. Well done!

8 years ago
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RE: Conceptually importing a pivot table into the PowerPivot Data Model

Hi Cory, If you don't need the actual transactions in your model then you can use Power Query to group the data into the 100 'Direction' categories...

8 years ago
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