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by Wyn Hopkins Power BI - Prepare for the new Ribbon Per the 2020 Power BI planned release notes the new ribbon, that has been in preview for several months, will be switched on by April 2020 for everyone. Check out the update from Microsoft here. You can turn it on now by going to [...]
by Wyn Hopkins How to use Power Query to connect to a file on OneDrive or SharePoint A growing number of organisations are starting to store their files on OneDrive for Business and SharePoint. Users will begin to discover that connecting to these files with Power Query is not as straight forward as clicking the button for [...]
by Wyn Hopkins Securely sharing Power BI in Teams Embedding a Power BI report inside your Teams channel is a great way of sharing reports and discussing them during meetings. Adding a Report to Teams To add a report, just click the + sign at the top of your Teams Channel window and then [...]
By Eric Marshall Hard coded data sources in Power BI Simple, hard-coded data tables can be useful data sources in Power BI (provided your data won’t change!). Here’s how to incorporate hard-coded data into your data model: Under the Home ribbon of Power BI Desktop, click “Enter Data”. Double click on “Column1” and rename [...]
Virtual Classroom - Power BI & Excel We're 100% still open for business and set up to deliver our highly rated Power BI and Excel "in - person" training via the magic of the internet! This is great, as not only do Perth clients continue to get access to our training courses, folks around Australia [...]
By Wyn Hopkins Power Query and a Key Word search (Episode 1) This demonstration came about due to a real life scenario where I needed to categorise a transaction listing (like a bank statement for example) so that I could generate a summary report of categories of spend. All sorts of tips can [...]
By Eric Marshall Get more out of Power BI Slicers The slicer visual in Power BI is a simple, yet powerful means of selecting criteria to filter your reports. Here are two useful tips on how to get more out of this visual: Tip #1: Turn Off Single Select By default, Power BI slicers behave [...]
by Robert Hind Use Shared Excel Templates Smart use of Excel (or other Office applications) should feature use of templates. In a business those templates should be "Workgroup" templates (common templates available across the business). Workgroup templates offer Efficiency, Consistency, Accuracy, Automation and Professionalism. The purpose of this article isn't to expand on the importance [...]
by Wyn Hopkins Power Query and a file selector Macro If you have an Excel file containing Power Query and need to send it to colleagues, read on. If they need to be able to change where the source data for the Query is being pulled from then read on. If you [...]
by Wyn Hopkins Did you know about these hidden Power BI features? It seems unfortunate that for such an awesome product there are a few user interface features that are very difficult to discover. I have trained hundreds and hundreds of users in Power BI, and I get to experience people hitting these issues over [...]
by Wyn Hopkins Use HYPERLINK and XLOOKUP to jump to a result XLOOKUP will return a range so we can use it inside other formulas such as HYPERLINK to be able to jump to our result. Want to learn more? Jump on to one of our courses We've trained over 1,000 people from all [...]
by Wyn Hopkins How and why to use XLOOKUP It’s August 2019 and we get our first glimpse of this glorious new function. In May 2016 I raised a UserVoice request to create a simpler and safer version of VLOOKUP and INDEX MATCH. As of May 2020 many Office 365 users now have it, and [...]
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Wyn has been awarded MVP status by Microsoft every year since 2017 and is the author of the book “Power BI for the Excel Analyst”. He is known worldwide for sharing his knowledge via the Access Analytic YouTube channel with over 5 million views and 90,000+ subscribers.
He gained his Chartered Accountant qualification at PwC in 2000 and has extensive Business Analyst experience with HBOS and Barclays in the UK plus multinational clients in Perth.
Wyn is skilled in Excel and Power BI development, Power Query automation, management reporting and is an experienced Excel and Power Bl trainer.
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