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Merge Tables using Inner and Anti Joins in Power Query
Last week’s blog post on merging tables using Outer joins has proved to be pretty popular. (I guess I’m not the only one who struggled with this concept!) This week we’ll look at the remaining three...
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Best of the Holiday Season
Hey folks, Just a quick note here to let you know that the blog is closed this week. (We’re taking a well deserved break to enjoy some family time, and hope you get the chance to do the same.) But...
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Creating a custom calendar in Power Query
As it’s the beginning of a new year, I thought it might be interesting to show my spin on creating a custom calendar in Power Query. This topic has been covered by many others, but I’ve never put my...
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Win a copy of M is for Data Monkey
We thought it might be fun to have a contest and give people a chance to win a copy of M is for Data Monkey. So here goes! What you can win We’re going to give away 5 e-book copies of the book, but...
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Keep rows that begin with alphabetical characters
Even though this hits on techniques used on this blog before, a colleague asked today “I have a lot of garbage names in a column and only want to keep rows that begin with an alphabetical character.”...
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Aggregate data while expanding columns
Without question, the Expand feature that shows up when you are merging tables using Power Query is very useful. But one of the things I’ve never called out is that – when you are merging tables – you...
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Removing offset duplicates
This post solves a tricky issue of removing offset duplicates or, in other words, removing items from a list that exist not only in a different column, but also on different rows. Problem History This...
View ArticleFirst Power Query class of 2016!
The intake is closing soon for our first Power Query class of 2016, which starts on February 3, 2016. If you haven't heard about this, or you've been considering taking it but haven't signed up yet,...
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Excel Summit South
Yes, you read that right. If you haven't heard yet, I'll be coming to New Zealand and Australia in just under a month! And the entire purpose of the trip is to come and share Excel knowledge for with...
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Excel 2016 Updates
I was a bit surprised to see some Excel 2016 updates when I opened it up this morning. For reference, I am on an Office 365 early release program – so I might get these a bit before you do – but how...
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Last Chance to register for Excel Summit South
I’m only a few days away from my flight to New Zealand to kick off the first leg of Excel Summit South. I’m really looking forward to it. And if you’ve been sitting on the fence as to why you should...
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Creating a Banding function in Power Query
I got a question on the blog recently about creating a banding function in Power Query, or creating buckets for Accounts Receivable transactions. (30-60 days, 60-90 days, etc..) As this is something...
View ArticleLive Power Query and Power Pivot Training in Melbourne: Next week!
I know that this comes with limited notice but… as many of you know I'm currently in Sydney, Australia, and I'll be in Melbourne in a couple of days for Excel Summit South. Well, as it happens, I'm...
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Running Totals using the List.Accumulate() Function
A while back I got an email from someone who had taken my Power Query training course online. They were asking how to create a running total, although with some added twists and turns for calculating...
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Replace Records Via Joins in Power Query
I got an email from a friend today who was using some complicated logic to replace specific records in a table with records from another table. His query was running pretty slow, so he reached out for...
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Newly added Power Query specific help forum at Excelguru
I'm honestly not sure what's taken me so long to do this, but I'm pleased to say that I've finally added a Power Query specific help forum at Excelguru. I'm hoping that this forum becomes THE place to...
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April 2016 Power Query Update
The April 2016 Power Query Update was just released for Office 365 subscribers, and I can confirm that it is available to the First Release customers, as I’ve already got it installed. (If you’re on a...
View ArticleWe need your votes!
Hey everyone, we need your votes to make a difference in Power Query and Power Pivot! There are a couple of items in the uservoice forums that I’d like to bring your attention to, and hopefully entice...
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Excel 2016: A fix and a new bug
Well, there’s good news and bad this time. I just updated my Excel 2016 to 16.0.6868.2048 (First release version) and there is a fix and a new bug evident. First, the fix As I reported a couple of...
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Pass Parameters to SQL Queries
One of the questions I get quite frequently is how we can pass parameters to SQL queries, allowing us to make them dynamic. Someone asked a question in the forum on the topic, so that finally inspired...
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