November 21, 2024 - by Bill Jelen
This is a feature that does deserve to be in this book. I am putting it in the book to warn you about the feature. Next to all of the great Power Query features is a drop-down for Data From Picture. The concept - use your phone to take a picture of a receipt. Then, copy the image, use Picture From Clipboard and Excel can insert data from the picture into Excel.
Excel 2024: Use Fuzzy Match in Power Query »
November 18, 2024 - by Bill Jelen
There's a research and development team at Microsoft known as Microsoft Labs. Almost 10 years ago, it invented a free Fuzzy Match add-in for Excel. A fuzzy matching algorithm looks for words that share a percentage of characters in common.
Excel 2024: Clean Data with Power Query »
November 14, 2024 - by Bill Jelen
Power Query is built in to Windows versions of Office 365, Excel 2016, Excel 2019 and is available as a free download in Windows versions of Excel 2010 and Excel 2013. The tool is designed to extract, transform, and load data into Excel from a variety of sources.
Excel 2024: Improve Your Macro Recording »
November 11, 2024 - by Bill Jelen
I loved the 1985 version of the Macro Recorder in Lotus 1-2-3. The code was hard to understand, but it worked. There are some defaults in the Excel Macro Recorder that cause misery for anyone trying to record macros. Here are three tips to make the macro experience possibly better.
Financial Modelling in Power BI
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The only book to produce all three financial statements in Power BI.
Microsoft Excel VBA and Macros (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365)
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Use this guide to automate virtually any routine Excel task: save yourself hours, days, maybe even weeks. Make Excel do things you thought were impossible, discover macro techniques you won't find anywhere else, and create automated reports that are amazingly powerful.
Master Your Data with Power Query in Excel and Power BI
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Despite the moniker "data monkey," we information workers are often more like data magicians. Our data seldom enters our world in a ready-to-consume format; it can take hours of cleaning, filtering, and reshaping to get things ready to go. Power Query will make this process faster the first time and reduce it to a single button click every subsequent time.
April 2022
The 6th Edition of MrExcel XL, updated with new functions released for Microsoft 365.