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RE: Connecting Excel Power Query to a Local Database System

Hi Mohamed, It will depend on the type of database. If it's SQL, then you can connect to it using the From Database connector for SQL databases. ...

1 year ago
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RE: IF/IFS

Hi Sham, Great to hear you're progressing through the course. The best/most efficient way to do this is with a lookup formula. You can use VLOOKUP ...

1 year ago
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RE: Calculate monthly movement from YTD balance

Hi Bax, I guess there are a few ways you can approach this depending on the information you have in the reports, but the simplest might be to separ...

1 year ago
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RE: won't Disappear

Hold CTRL and left click on the outer edge of the text box, then press DELETE.

1 year ago
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RE: Line Chart with Slicer - Bug?

Hi Tracy, Make sure you clear all the filters in the Slicers for the Chart before formatting. The formats should then stick. However, if the slicer...

1 year ago
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RE: Dynamic array - splitting single column, replicate others

I would use Power Query to do this. Split by delimited and then in the Advanced settings choose 'by rows'.

1 year ago
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RE: Cost Allocation/Create P&L Report

Hi Bax, I used to do this exact task in my previous life as a management accountant. I'm pretty sure I demo a technique you can use to do this in l...

1 year ago
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RE: Excel pictures in cells

Hi Jim, Not using the new picture in cell feature. With this you can store a picture in a cell, but not also store text over the top. The only o...

1 year ago
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RE: ULTIMATE Personal Budget - struggle adding slicers

Hi Hans, In column H add a heading for 'Category' in cell H15. In cell H16 enter this formula: =XLOOKUP([@[Sub-category]],TblCategories[Sub-cate...

1 year ago
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RE: Change currency

Yes, you can just change the number format to whatever you prefer.

1 year ago
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RE: File with US dates, some as Data and some as text, need to convert to AU format dates

Hi Sam, You should use Power Query to import the data and then you can use the 'Change Type > Using Locale' menu to correct the date format. ...

1 year ago
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RE: Microsoft 365 excel issue

Hi Dennis, The reason you're getting that error is because your formula is incorrect. Please see this tutorial on how to write an IF formula. If...

1 year ago
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RE: web data scraping -1

Hi Sheela, It doesn't appear so. This page uses JavaScript to serve up dynamic results. Power Query can't see this. You can tell it's serving up re...

1 year ago
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RE: Pivot Table Sort by Date

Hi Sean, Cell formats are not the same as the data type being a date. You can format a cell containing text as a currency, but it will still displa...

1 year ago
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RE: mapping data in power query

Hi Sheela, Please see file attached. You need to merge the tables, then add a conditional column and then Pivot the License Name column. Note: t...

1 year ago
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