Excel's What-if Analysis Data Table allows you to quickly create simulations. This tutorial takes you through a simple example of how you can create a Data Table from scratch. If you've never used this feature, you need to check it out. It's like magic.
Excel comes with default settings and options. You can easily change these by going to File / Options. Why should you? To support your workflow and be more productive. This post has my list of options you need to review.
Organizational data types allow you to create your own rich custom data types in the Excel Ribbon. Technically you‘d create them in Power BI and have them show up in the Excel Menu of your team members. This tutorial show you what organizational data types are and you can set them up from scratch.
This is a real-life example of Excel's VSTACK function. Quickly stack data from multiple sheets (even as many as 15 sheets!), filter out blank cells and even sort the summary table.
Handling dates in Excel Pivot Tables can get tricky. How can you quickly ungroup the dates? Or get your own custom grouping for fiscal periods? How can you show all the dates including the ones with no values? This tutorial covers it all!
Lock & Unlock Cells in Microsoft Excel If you create spreadsheets for other people to use, you may have some experience with those people deleting or changing your formulas or other aspects of your workbook. Not only is it frustrating to have
The new Microsoft Excel Advanced Formula Add-in makes it easy to write and manage LAMBDAs in Excel. It's a "new" version of Name Manager and hopefully it could replace Name Manager in the future.
It takes ZERO effort to now get searchable drop-down lists in Excel. Excel's data validation list now offers autocomplete by default. Empty cells are skipped too! This is all for desktop and online version. Check out this post to find out more.
Don't merge cells in Excel - Don't Copy Excel sheets without updating links - Don't hide rows and columns! There are better ways of doing these things. Find out 7 things you're doing wrong in Excel and how to do it correctly.
Get started with Power BI now by creating your first dashboard. Download the free files, follow along and in 20 minutes you'll have setup your interactive dashboard which you've published to the web!
