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RE: Slicer Removes Custom Sort in Pivot Table

Hi Brent, It sounds like you haven't used a date field and then grouped them into months. When you use a proper date field and then grouping, the P...

9 years ago
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RE: Slicer for fields in value drop zone

It looks like your data isn't in the correct tabular format to support a Slicer that contains Room 1, Kitchen, Living Room etc. My guess is you have a...

9 years ago
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RE: Lesson 10.04 - DATESBETWEEN weirdness - mix of US vs World date formats

In Excel when I import a file containing dates formatted as mm/dd/yyyy, let's say it's a text file, it will try to use my default date format (dd/mm/y...

9 years ago
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RE: Measure formula help - I can't figure out correct syntax!

Hi Gayle, I recommend you write explicit measures for each component you need to calculate. You can then check the results for each component are a...

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RE: Lesson 10.04 - DATESBETWEEN weirdness - mix of US vs World date formats

Hi Ed, Did you change the date format for the Date column of the Dates table to m/d/y? In my file I have set the data type to Date and the date for...

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RE: count function

Hi Joyce, If there are blank cells in the column/field you want to count then the count will not include those lines. If you want to count the numb...

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RE: Fiscal Quarter and Fiscal Year Date Table

Hi Mary, You can use the if statement to add a custom column for the fiscal quarters. For example, in Australia our financial year runs from July to ...

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RE: Power Query vs. Excel vs. Power Pivot

Hi Martha, The general rule is if you need to add calculated columns then you should use Power Query to do this as it's more efficient, whereas if ...

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RE: Loading folder

Hi Martha, I'm not aware of any performance benefits to importing CSV vs Excel files, however you may notice a smaller file size for the CSV's so t...

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RE: Error editing query

Hi Martha, If you rename a column in your query that has already been loaded into Power Pivot then you'll get that error because they column names ...

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RE: Loading folder

Hi Martha, Please watch the tutorial for importing files from a folder again because the second half of the video deals with importing Excel files,...

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RE: Polynomial equations (how to forecast)

Hi Rusty, It looks like no one has experience with poly-whats-its, sorry. Unfortunately I don't either, but maybe my reply will bring your topic to...

9 years ago
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RE: creating a query from another query

🙂 I'll have to make them more exciting then!

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RE: creating a query from another query

Hi Bill, Yes, you can reference another query in a query. See session 4.19 for instructions on how to do this. Kind regards, Mynda

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RE: Pivot Chart question

Hi Mike, I haven't tested as it's tricky without your data, but I don't think you can create this as a combo Pivot chart. Plus Pivot charts are bug...

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