Month: March 2024

Copilot for Power BI: Your Ultimate Copilot Guide

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Have you used Copilot for Power BI? Do you know there are different copilots within Power BI? Carly joins us for the ultimate Copilot for Power BI guide!

Overview of Copilot for Power BI (preview)
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/create-reports/copilot-introduction

Create report pages with Copilot for the Power BI service
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/create-reports/copilot-create-report

Create a narrative with Copilot for Power BI
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/create-reports/copilot-create-narrative?tabs=powerbi-service

Summarize a report page in the Copilot pane
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/create-reports/copilot-pane-summarize-content

Use Copilot to create measure descriptions (preview)
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/transform-model/desktop-measure-copilot-descriptions?toc=%2Fpower-bi%2Fcreate-reports%2FTOC.json&bc=%2Fpower-bi%2Fcreate-reports%2Fbreadcrumb%2Ftoc.json

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Excel – Export to PDF with Gridlines and Row & Column Labels

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Microsoft Excel Tutorial: How to export a PDF file from Excel including the gridlines, row headers, and column headers.

In this Excel tutorial, we solve Angela’s problem: her exported PDF is missing grid lines! 📊 Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Learn step-by-step how to ensure your PDF exports retain grid lines, row numbers, and column labels. It’s all about mastering those Page Layout and Page Setup settings. Join us as we dive into the nitty-gritty of Excel’s Sheet tab and unleash the power of the dialog launcher. By the end of this video, you’ll be exporting polished PDFs like a Continue reading “Excel – Export to PDF with Gridlines and Row & Column Labels” →

CALCULATE Deep Dive

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Understand the difference between table functions and CALCULATE modifiers and how to use them correctly

Details of what you will learn during this video:
– Learn how to establish an order of evaluation in CALCULATE parameters
– Understand the difference between table functions and CALCULATE modifiers and how to use them correctly
– Evaluate a table expression in the context of a FILTER/CALCULATETABLE
– Observe how context transition is performed by operating the CALCULATE and CALCULATETABLE functions
– Discover how large data sets are transformed by nested CALCULATE functions and generate unexpected results

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Exploring Dynamic Subscriptions for Power BI reports

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First, we had dynamic subscriptions for Power BI Paginated reports. Now they are available for Power BI reports! Patrick walks you through how to take advantage of them!

Dynamic per recipient subscriptions for reports (Preview)
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/collaborate-share/power-bi-dynamic-report-subscriptions

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Excel – How to Run a Macro from an Icon on the QAT #excelfansonly

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Microsoft Excel Tutorial: How to run a macro from an icon on the Quick Access Toolbar.

Running your Excel macros just got a whole lot easier! Forget the hassle of navigating through menus. In this tutorial, learn how to add your macros to the Quick Access Toolbar for quick and convenient access.

Simply right-click, customize the Quick Access Toolbar, select Macros, and add your desired macro, specifying it’s for This Workbook. Choose an icon that represents your macro’s function, click OK, and voila!

Now you can effortlessly run your macro directly from the Quick Access Toolbar.

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Excel – How to Run a Macro From a Button in the Excel Grid #excelfansonly

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Microsoft Excel Tutorial – Easy Way to Add a Macro button to your spreadsheet.

Tired of the hassle of running your Excel macros? In this video, learn a quick and easy way to streamline the process. Say goodbye to pressing Alt+F8 and clicking through menus.

Simply head over to the Insert tab, choose a shape, like a rounded rectangle, and type “Run!” while the shape is selected.

Customize it with your macro’s name and formatting preferences. Then, right-click the shape, assign your macro, and you’re done! With just a click, your macro runs smoothly.

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PIVOTBY & GROUPBY to Create Year by Month Sales Report. Grouping Trick! Excel Magic Trick 1859

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Download Excel File: https://excelisfun.net/files/EMT1857-1858.xlsx
Learn how to group in the GROUPBY and PIVOTBY functions to create Year by Month Sales Reports.
Topics:
1. (00:00) Introduction
2. (00:21) Shout Out to Excel Instructor: Radosław Poprawski at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVOcrn3Orn-aC0q1qGyQQmQ
3. (00:33) EOMONTH column, YEAR column inside HSTACK
4. (01:31) Custom Number Format for month
5. (01:42) GROUPBY
6. (02:17)PIVOTBY
7. (02:39) Closing, Video Links

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🔴 Microsoft Fabric / Power BI Q&A – LIVE (Mar 30, 2024) (Member Chat 2nd Half)

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Join us live as we answer your questions about Microsoft Fabric (including Power BI)! Get your questions in the chat early as we don’t get to all of them.

💥 30 minutes: Open Q&A (Public)
💥 Then… Members Only Chat (Public can watch & Super Chat for Questions)

📢 RULES FOR Q&A: 📢

👉 Put a “Q:” in front of your comment to help us identify questions!
👉 Super chats take priority
👉 Do NOT re-post your questions! We’ll get to as many questions as we can.
👉 If you SPAM your question, you will be put in timeout

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How to connect to Microsoft Fabric Items from Power BI Desktop?

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If you’re in Power BI Desktop, how do you actually connect to Microsoft Fabric items like a lakehouse or warehouse? Adam walks you through different options and how this relates to various connectors.

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Decoding Direct Lake: The Truth Behind DirectQuery Fallback

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Direct Lake in Power BI could possibly fall back to DirectQuery. Do you understand why this would happen and when? Patrick walks you though what you need to know when leveraging data from OneLake in Microsoft Fabric.

Direct Lake
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/enterprise/directlake-overview

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Everything About Power BI Security

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Master the Row Level Security, Report Security, Workspace & App Security, Object Level Security and Internal & External Sharing.

Details of what you will learn during this video:
– Workspace & App Security
– Dataflow & Dataset Security
– Report Security
– Row Level Security
– Object Level Security
– Internal & External Sharing

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Grouping in GROUPBY & PIVOTBY Functions!?!? Yes!!!! Frequency Distribution with GROUPBY EMT 1858

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Download Excel File: https://excelisfun.net/files/EMT1857-1858.xlsx
Learn how to group in the GROUPBY and PIVOTBY functions to create Frequency Distributions.
Topics:
1. (00:00) Introduction to Frequency Distribution
2. (00:38) Start, Increment and Last Value for frequency distribution using MAX and CEILING.MATH functions
3. (01:12) Build Bins using SEQUENCE function
4. (01:42) Build GROUPBY Formula using LET and GROUPBY
5. (02:37) Look at PIVOTBY Formula
6. (02:43) Understanding Categories
7. (03:00) Closing, Video Links

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