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Creating a dynamic Dropdown List with Data Validation from another workbook with a little help from Power Query

Probably the longest title of all times, but it leads to something great. First let’s explain Power Query. Power Query is an AddInn for Excel and part of ...

The New Pivot Column option in Power Query

If some pictures are hard to view, you can get the PDF of the article The Pivot option in Power Query. With the latest update of Power Query AddInn for Excel quite a ...

Unpivot with Power Query

One might think that analyzing data with a Pivot table is hard, but Unpivot a Pivot table proves to be even harder. But Power Query or better yet a Query editor ...

PowerPivot Inside Out (Part 2/3)

This is the second article of three. If you hadn’t read the first part yet, it is recommended that you do so. It talked about the basics of PowerPivot and ...

Power Pivot Inside Out (Part 1/3)

Power Pivot Inside Out is a three part series on 10 things you need to know about Power Pivot. Update 2022: we recently published a video on the Excel Olympics ...

Does a Power Pivot Pivot Table beat a regular Pivot Table

Does a Power Pivot Pivot Table beat a regular Pivot Table? Hands down, YES! If you would like to read about the comparison of definitions of the two, you can do so ...

Sorting months chronologically and not alphabetically in a Power Pivot based Pivot Table

Here is our “problem”. When you create a Pivot Table in Excel that has a date field and is based on data in Excel, you can Group that field by month and ...