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Connect to Excel files using Power Query Power Query can connect to Excel files held in OneDrive for business and in SharePoint. But it's not obvious how. Whether you use Excel or PowerBI this approach will work. Also, for a pure "M" code approach to SharePoint you can use something like this to get your data [...]
Microsoft UserVoice We all want to make Excel and Power BI better. There are new features we'd love to see, and there are existing issues we'd like to fix. Microsoft are listening to users expressing their views via voting on the UserVoice sites. Vote for the features you want A number of experts (including our [...]
Every Excel Power Pivot Model or Power BI Desktop file needs a Calendar. With the addition of a Calendar to your Data Model you can start to do all sorts of useful analysis such sorting the data by Fiscal month and Fiscal Year or performing calculations such as TotalYTD, Year On Year Growth, [...]
Power Query is the greatest addition to Excel in 10 years, it's amazing at extracting and transforming data ready for you to use in a report. In this two minute video we show you how easy it is to extract the data you need without using any formulas! Find out more Extract and clean your [...]
This 3 minute video shows how easy it is to link to web page data with Excel. In this scenario it's connecting to the Reserve Bank of Australia exchange rates web page. Get & Transform is built into Excel 2016. It was previously known as Power Query and is still a free download for Excel [...]
Excel and Power BI are amazing analysis and data visualisation tools. Knowing what's possible is just the beginning. You can see the possibilities in this video recently recorded at the Microsoft Studios in Seattle. The speed of change and capabilities of Excel and Power BI are dizzying. The benefits of learning these technologies will save [...]
Excel or Power BI - where to start? So... Excel has Power Query and Power Pivot built in. Power BI uses the same technology. So which one should you learn first? I say which should you learn "first" because if you learn one it's a relatively small step to learn the other 2 Questions: 1. What's your aim? [...]
3 Signs your Company's Management Reporting Needs a Massive Overhaul How much time does your organisation spend each month preparing budget and management reports? How much time does management spend trying to understand these reports? How much money does your organisation spend on reporting solutions? Do any of the following [...]
Power BI data sources can be almost any file, database or web service. Here's an innovative way to use this amazing connectivity to estimate your market share using free information sources from the web. Facebook tells me my Market Size If you've ever placed an ad on Facebook, you'll know the incredible range of characteristics [...]
How to...CSVs to Power BI Dashboard in 10 minutes! If you've ever clicked "Export to CSV" then we are kindred spirits. In a previous life as analyst and accountant, I have been an unwilling follower of the export, copy paste, filter, remove top 2 rows, transpose mantra. In recent years a lot of [...]
What is Power BI.com? This is the next in a series of 4-5 minute videos introducing the Power BI suite consisting of Excel Power Pivot & Power Query, Power BI desktop and Power BI.com Here's a link to my previous article on Power Pivot in Excel. This time it's Power BI.com and a short introduction [...]
Power Query Data Cleansing - solving all sorts of Excel issues by Wyn Hopkins Some may see Power Query simply as a brilliant way of connecting to multiple data sources and loading that data into a Microsoft Power BI development environment (Excel Power Pivot or Power BI desktop). Having spent 25 [...]
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