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Build a Reusable Calendar Table with Power Query

I wrote a blog on this topic a few years ago over at PowerPivotPro.com. I have learnt a lot about Power Query since that time, plus Power Query has come along in leaps and bounds, and it now has a lot more capability than it had…

3 May 2018

Data & Analysis

“In the Previous” Date Filters In Power BI/Get&Transform/Power Query

The Query Editor in Power BI/Excel Get&Transform/Power Query has a number of built-in ways to filter data in date columns relative to the current date, such as the “In the Previous” option. However these filters behave in a way I find non-intuitive (and I’m not alone)…

9 January 2018

Data & Analysis

Power Query/Get & Transform: The Future Of Data Loading In Excel

Last week, Dominic Petri shared a link on Twitter that contained some important news from Microsoft: as of the March release of the Office 365 click-to-run version of Excel 2016, the old methods of loading data into Excel will be replaced by the newer “Get &…

13 March 2017

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Referenced Queries And Caching In Power BI And Power Query

Last week, Maxim Zelensky (whose blog is well worth checking out) tweeted about a very interesting answer he had received to a question he posted on the Power Query MSDN forum, on the subject of caching and referenced queries in Power Query. You can read the…

1 December 2016

Data & Analysis

Working With CSV Files That Contain Rogue Line Breaks In Power Query And Power BI

CSV files often contain text fields, and text fields often contain line breaks that shouldn’t be there (especially if the text is entered by end users). For example, here is are the contents of a simple CSV file that should contain three fields(Product, Comment and Sales)…

22 February 2016