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Category Archives: Excel Functions

Join Types in Power Query – Part 2: Lookup Dashboard

We love Joins and we hope you do too! If you’re not there yet, you should really check Part 1 of this series and learn why Power Query Join is as cool as a ...

Join Types in Power Query – Part 1: Join Types

Who doesn’t love Join? It’s like Excel’s LOOKUP, but better! I use Join all the time for merging tables one way or the other. Let’s look at ...

Why You Should Know Power Query – Part 3: Merge

Power Query is a great tool for data transformation. I often use as an upgrade to Excel. We already covered two great functionalities in first two parts: fill and ...

Why You Should Know Power Query – Part 2: Split

Power Query can be more than an ETL tool – I often use it as an upgrade to Excel. It has some neat functionalities that make transforming data so much more ...

Why You Should Know Power Query – Part 1: Fill

Power Query is meant to be an ETL tool, but I often find myself using it in addition to Excel. Power Query has some neat functionalities that make transforming data ...

Data Types – Part 2 – Create Your Own Data Types in Power BI
February 1, 2022

Let’s see how to create your own data types in Power BI! This is a follow up of Part 1, where we learned how it’s done in Power Query. How-to We start by ...

Data Types – Part 1 – Create Your Own Data Types in Power Query
January 25, 2022

How can you create your own data types in Excel? Oh yes, you can do it! In this article, we’ll learn how you can create data types in Power Query. Follow the ...

Remove Blank Rows in Excel

How to remove blank rows in Excel? Let’s look at some examples for simple and complicated tables. Simple Table Let’s start with the following table. The ...

AI in Excel – Part 3 – Analyze Data, the Future of Data Analysis?

Welcome back to Artificial Intelligence in Excel! In Part 1, we looked at a feature called Flash Fill. It works by recognizing patterns of data and filling out the ...

AI in Excel – Part 2 – Column From Examples

Welcome back to Artificial Intelligence in Excel! In Part 1, we’ll looked at a feature called Flash Fill. It works by recognizing patterns of data and filling ...

AI in Excel – Part 1 – Flash Fill

Welcome to the brave new world of Artificial Intelligence in Excel! In this article, we’ll look at a powerful new feature called Flash Fill. It works by ...

Extending the Date Table – Part 2

We’re continuing our quest for beautiful and dynamic dashboards. We make the greatest strides towards that by simply extending the date table with four ...

Extending the Date Table – Part 1

Let’s look at some crucial tools for creating polished dynamic dashboards. We always extend the date table with three important columns: YM Index, Running 13 ...

How to Highlight Weekend Dates in Excel Table

Highlighting Weekends can be hard in Excel. So just for fun, we’ll do this in three different ways: we’ll use conditional formatting to highlight the weekend ...

SEQUENCE function – Add it to your toolbelt today
September 14, 2021

The Excel SEQUENCE function In this article, we’ll introduce the SEQUENCE function. SEQUENCE function is one of the new dynamic arrays functions and when ...

R Language Overview and R Language Examples
September 10, 2021

R Language Introduction and R Language Examples R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is free and ...

Consolidate Multiple Excel Sheets From Multiple Excel Files

We often have our data spread out in multiple Excel workbooks and sheets. How do we combine all of them into one table? Let’s walk through an example. We have ...

Turning Product Descriptions into a list of attributes with Power Query

You can also watch the video version of this content here: https://youtu.be/5QDERKmMvZQ or watch the embedded video at the end of this post. It’s true Power ...

Excel FILTER Function – The Function that does Everything

Last year, Microsoft announced the introduction of a new group of functions in Excel, known as dynamic array functions. One of these – the FILTER function – is ...

XLOOKUP is finally here

Today is most definitely one of the most exciting days of this year for all Excel users out there. Today the endless discussions about whether people should use ...

Start And End Date Of The Week With Power Query

One of the most popular posts on Excel Unplugged is Formula to get the Start and End Date of the Week. For the last two years I’ve been a strong advocate for ...

Ultimate Vlookup Alternative? (Part 2)

This is part 2 of the Ultimate Vlookup Alternative post and a continuance from last week’s post. We will be using the same Excel workbook as we did in part ...

Ultimate Vlookup alternative? (Part 1)

Almost a year ago, more precisely in May of 2017 a site called defeat excel invited 27 Excel Experts (including myself) to end the endless debate of Vlookup vs. ...

Making Importing from Folder in Power Query (or Power BI) Bulletproof

I’ve always been a big fan of the Import from Folder feature in Power Query. So much so, that I wrote my first post on the topic way back in February of 2015. ...