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Creating Map Visualizations within Standard PivotTables
I was puttering around on the internet when I came across Daniel Ferry’s old post on Location mapping in Excel. The idea is that you can use latitudes and longitudes to plot points on a chart. Cool...
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New Contest for 2017: The Excel 5 Minute Challenge
Happy New Year everyone! I’m back from a few long months of moving into a new house. Now that I’m all settled in, I’d like to start this New Year with a bang. By that, I mean a new Excel Contest! The...
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Quickly Wrap Formulas in IFERROR without VBA
Here’s a quick tip for quickly wrapping all formulas in IFERROR without VBA. 1. Select the cells that contain the formulas you want wrapped in IFERROR. 2. Press F5 on your keyboard to activate the...
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Excel 5-Minute Challenge Update
The Excel 5-Minute Challenge is underway, and I’ve received one video so far. Don’t know about the Excel 5-Minute Challenge? Click here to find out. It would be a shame for all these prizes to go...
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Vote for the Winner! Excel 5-Minute Excel Challenge
Ok…all the submissions for the 5-Minute Excel Challenge have come in. I’ve loaded them to YouTube and have opened up voting. I have to say, these videos are different than I expected. After watching...
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Winners of the Excel 5-Minute Challenge
The Excel 5-Minute Challenge has come to an end and the Excel community has chosen the winners! Participants recorded themselves creating a functional dashboard/report in 5 minutes or less. Their...
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Don’t Miss Out – One More Week to Sign Up for Live Power BI Training with Ken...
I’m a HUGE proponent of live training. Webinars and on-line training is fine, but there is nothing like physically being in an environment of like-minded people. Ken Puls is hosting a Power BI Bootcamp...
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Why ‘Your Version’ of Excel only Accept Semicolons in Formulas instead of Commas
Today, I learned how Region settings in Windows can truly botch up Excel. A reader of one of my Pulitzer Prize worthy books sent me an email stating that the example formulas aren’t working. After a...
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Pulling SSRS Data Directly into Excel with PowerPivot
As Excel Analysts, we’re often asked to pull data from various sources. One of these sources for many of us is SSRS. SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services). If you’ve pulled data from SSRS before, you’ll...
View ArticleBest Practices for Organizing VBA Modules
A friend of mine recently asked me: “What is the best way to organize the Modules in my Excel workbook?” That is to say, what is the best-practice for organizing VBA code? I’ve searched the web to...
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Excel Against Humanity
April Fools is coming up, but it falls on a weekend. So instead a post about pranking your co-workers, I thought I’d give you guys a fun way to spend your Friday. I pulled together an Excel version of...
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Create SQL Server Tables from Excel Data – Free Tool
So I’ve got some time to come up for air and share a tool I’ve pulled together to help me in my client engagements. The work I do often requires me to database existing Excel processes. That means...
View ArticleMe vs Hungarian Notation
Hungarian Notation is a coding convention that many programmers use to (presumably) make their code more understandable. It involves prefixing variable names with a kind of code that describes the...
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