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Understanding Find and Replace in #Excel
Find and Replace is a very handy tool in Excel. It helps you to find a value quickly. You may then replace the value found with another value, either one by one or replace all at one batch. To use … Continue reading
#Excel #PowerQuery Challenge – Add value to CSV data in cells
As always, a picture tells thousand words. The above image explains clearly what we want to achieve, with Power Query in Excel of course. This problem was bought to my attention when I watched the Dueling Excel Podcast #192 by … Continue reading
Learn how to build effective #Excel Dashboard from Mynda Treacy
Did you know… you can create such a beautiful dashboard using Excel? Did you also know… this visually appealing dashboard was built in just more than 30 minutes? No kidding! Check it out HERE and you will see. Want to … Continue reading
Combine all visible worksheets from multiple #Excel files in a folder
It is a common task for us to combine all worksheets in a workbook. It could be a time consuming task without Power Query. With Power Query, it’s piece of cake. 😁 Wait? What about if you want to combine … Continue reading
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Tagged Combine Workbook, Invoke Custom Function, Remove Top Rows, Unpivot column
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Quick Tip – Probably the quickest way to open txt file with #Excel
Are you tired of seeing the (Text Import) Wizard 🧙♂️ every time you open txt file with Excel? In this super short video, you will see probably the quickest way to open a txt file with Excel. Enjoy! 😉
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Lovely stickers in #Excel 365
Do you use stickers when you use communication apps like WhatsApp? I guess that’s almost a must-have features right now for communication apps. Would it be nice if you can use stickers in Excel too? Yes… you can, if you … Continue reading
Should I link to other workbooks…
…when writing #Excel formula Note: This post is not about “security” issue 🤷♂️ Is the following message familiar to you? I wonder… when you see this message, which button would you click? Please let me know by leaving comments … Continue reading
Quick tip – Zoom in and out of the #PowerQuery editor
In both #Excel and #PowerBI Did you know… we can ZOOM IN or zoom out everything but ribbon in the Power Query Editor in both Excel and Power BI Desktop… … by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+= CTRL+SHIFT+- respectively. The story behind the … Continue reading
Insert blank columns to table in #PowerBI Desktop
In Excel, it is a common (but not necessarily a good) practice for people to add a thin blank column in a table to give a visual effect of divider. Like the screenshot below: To insert a blank column in … Continue reading
More #Excel videos with English Voice Over…
Well… I know I know, I haven’t written new posts for a while. I was lazy in previous weeks; enjoying summer breezes. You know what, if I were not doing Excel on weekends, I would probably have been enjoying hiking … Continue reading
Split date ranges from cells with #Excel #PowerQuery
Take a look at the challenge presented above. Is it possible to do it in Excel? Be honest, without Power Query, I have no idea how to do it but manual work. 😁🤦♂️ Believe it or not, with Power Query, … Continue reading
Replace blanks with zero in #Excel
Following the techniques used in the previous post , we can perform many Excel magics for different scenarios. On top of my mind is to replace blank cells with zero. The first task is to select all blank cells in … Continue reading
Posted in Excel Tips
Tagged Ctrl Enter, Find and Replace, Go to special, Keyboard Shortcut
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Delete rows with empty cell(s) in #Excel
Guess what? We are going to do it with a sequence of keyboard shortcuts only. Believe it or not, it requires only 8 key strokes: Ctrl+A => Ctrl+G => Alt+S => k => Enter => Ctrl+- (minus sign) => r … Continue reading
Transform and Combine all worksheets in an #Excel workbook with #PowerQuery
Power Query is magically powerful, yet it is not well known to majority of Excel users. I think most Excel users are not even aware of its existence… So, let’s talk about how Power Query could solve a real-life problem … Continue reading
My first video with English Voice Over
Power Query – Full Outer Join Revisit Part 2 If you have been following my blog for a while, you should probably know that I’ve started my YouTube channel about one year ago. Up to this moment, I’ve uploaded 54 … Continue reading
Power Query Challenge – Joining two tables fully (Part 2)
Append Queries + Group By = Another alternative for a better Full Join In the previous post, we explored an alternative way to perform FULL OUTER JOIN with Left Outer Join + Right Anti Join, followed by Append Queries in … Continue reading
Power Query Challenge – Joining two tables fully
Left Outer + Right Anti = A better Full Join A sample file is available below. If you prefer reading to watching, please continue to read this post. The situation: I have two tables. One is Sales Table; One is … Continue reading
Idea: Ctrl+M to launch #PowerQuery Editor
To all Power Query Users: I need your vote! Well… we know that in Excel the language behind Power Query is called M; it takes at least three clicks to launch Power Query Editor; the shortcut CTRL+M is currently unassigned… Then why … Continue reading
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