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RE: Relationship hourly data and monthly data - many to many

Hi Mattias, It's probably ok to use the many to many relationship, but you'd want to do some spot checks to ensure it's reporting the results corre...

3 years ago
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RE: Calculated field in Pivot Table

Hi Marko, Thanks for sharing your file. There is an easier way. Simply right-click an of the values in the PivotTable > Show Values As > Diff...

3 years ago
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RE: Change the data series name of a Pivot chart

It's a side effect of using a PivotTable as the source for a pie chart when you have multiple axis labels/expandable fields. I'd try showing your boss...

3 years ago
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RE: Convert dates

Hi Mattias, In Power Query the process is the same except you use the #date function e.g.: =#date(year, month, day) Note: the formatting shou...

3 years ago
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RE: How to Structure Pivot Table when Data has 1s and 0s from Survey Questions

Hi Melissa, I appreciate it's not easy to follow written instructions. To clarify, I said: "After you unpivot it in Power Query, you 'close & l...

3 years ago
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RE: Change the data series name of a Pivot chart

Hi Misha, Can I suggest you use a bar chart instead of a pie chart. You should never show more than 3 segments in a pie chart. Any more than that a...

3 years ago
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RE: Convert dates

Hi Mattias, You need to add a column using the DATE function and rebuild the date using the year, month and day values e.g.: =DATE([Calendar Yea...

3 years ago
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RE: Excel track changes

Hi Yuan, With a Microsoft 365 account you can use the new change tracking tool. Mynda

3 years ago
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RE: How to Structure Pivot Table when Data has 1s and 0s from Survey Questions

If you've got your data in a tabular layout then you can go ahead and create the PivotTables. You can add new responses to the original source data ta...

3 years ago
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RE: Calculated field in Pivot Table

Hi Marko, If you have proper dates in your model, which you should, then you can use the time intelligence functions like SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR etc. t...

3 years ago
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RE: Lesson 4.01

Hi Rick, Sorry about that. I've fixed it now. Mynda

3 years ago
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RE: Merge multiple sheets with Power Query - but not to create a Pivot Table.

Hi Peter, This is a job for Power Query. If your data is messy you can automate the cleaning of it before the matching steps. Mynda

3 years ago
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RE: Top/Bottom N values by category

Hi Bax, You can use Group by to get the total sales by region and customer. And then you can number the grouped data, and lastly filter it to only ...

3 years ago
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RE: Change the data series name of a Pivot chart

Looks like you have a 'Total' in your source data because totals calculated by the PivotTable do not display in Pivot Charts. You should never have to...

3 years ago
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RE: Linking multiple fact tables via a dimension table

Hi Lauren, It's great to hear you and your team are making use of your new skills! One of the main reasons we don't use fact tables as proxy dim...

3 years ago
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