Category: Power Pivot

Excel Secret To Maximizing Euro Jackpot Winnings – 2364

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Markus is looking for Excel help to pick numbers for the Euro Jackpot where you have to choose 5 numbers from 1 to 50. In this video, I share secrets from my late friend Dogtrack Bill.

To use the number picker in a free Excel Online, follow this link:
https://1drv.ms/x/s!As7G72Sl487JljvjcWPxwg0_pTe1?e=CMGO1E

The Euro Jackpot payout for matching 5 numbers with no bonus numbers is a parimutuel system. A fixed percentage of the betting pool is split between all people that matched five numbers. To maximize the payout if you win, choose numbers that are not likely to be chosen by Continue reading “Excel Secret To Maximizing Euro Jackpot Winnings – 2364” →

Excel Use Previous Workday If Not A Workday – 2363

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Vicki: I have a list of dates and I’m looking for a formula to calculate the previous workday only if the date in the list is a weekend or holiday.

Why: Accrue Fed Fund Interest Daily (Fed Funds Rate only published on Business Days).

This is mildly complex, because you need to be able to create a named range for the holidays, and after building the long formula, Excel will likely give you the date serial number instead of the formatted date.

Table of Contents
(0:00) Introduction
(0:23) Create a named range with holidays
(1:23) Excel formula to detect if date is a workday using NETWORKDAY Continue reading “Excel Use Previous Workday If Not A Workday – 2363” →

Free Excel Templates From Microsoft Create – 2361

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The Microsoft Create platform is in preview. Sign in with a Microsoft 365 Home account to access free templates for Excel and more. It also includes training on social media from Kat Norton Miss Excel and promises future features.

Table of Contents
(0:00) Free templates in Preview
(0:34) Start at Create.Microsoft.Com
(1:30) Opening a template in Excel Online
(1:54) Accessing from Win32
(2:24) Learning videos including Kat Norton
(3:00) Designer & Clipchamp coming

Less F9 In The Excel Formula Bar And Two Other New Features – 2360

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Three new features coming to Excel.
1) Value Preview will evaluate part of your formula when you select it in the Excel formula bar. You don’t have to press F9 and Esc anymore.
2) AutoSave moves from an icon to Words in the Excel Title Bar
3) Small preview of Personalized Toolbar in Excel

Table of Contents
(0:00) Three new Excel Features
(0:30) F9 replaced with Value Preview
(3:57) AutoSave icon moves to Title Bar words
(5:07) Personalized Toolbar in Preview
(10:38) Wrap-up

Excel Power Query Import And Clean Fixed Width Text Files 2359

Posted on by Annie D

I was doing a seminar recently and many people at the company were getting reports downloaded as fixed width text files.

I encouraged them to start using the Get & Transform tools in Excel for cleaning this date. After the seminar, I created a text file with many of the issues that were in their workbooks.

Table of Contents
(0:00) Fixed Width Text File for Excel
(0:50) Excel Text Import Wizard UI for Marking Column Locations
(1:19) Finding column start locations for Power Query
(1:59) Importing to Excel from Text/CSV
(2:18) Power Query incorrectly guesses comma as delimiter
(2:42) Power Query make column wider
(2:55) Power Query removing Continue reading “Excel Power Query Import And Clean Fixed Width Text Files 2359” →

Excel Average Of Non-Zero Rows In Pivot Table – 2358

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There are 7 pivot table secrets in this video, and you haven’t seen six of them. The question: I have several projects in a pivot table. At the bottom, as part of the pivot table, I want an average of the non-zero rows.

The person is currently using AVERAGEIF outside of the pivot table, but that formula must be adjusted.

Today, we use a Data Model pivot table and a DAX Measure to calculate the average. The resulting pivot table has too many rows, so I use a new Set based on Rows.

I can not post the final formula here Continue reading “Excel Average Of Non-Zero Rows In Pivot Table – 2358” →

Excel Keeps Inserting A Space In the Name WITHA – 2356

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We have a person in our roster with the first name of “Witha”. But Excel constantly changes this to “With A”. We are being stung by one of the thousands of entries in the Excel AutoCorrect Options dialog.

This video will show you how to stop Excel from autocorrecting Witha to With A.

ChatGPT Versus 2 Humans Writing Power Query – 2355

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Laura B has a tricky Power Query question today. She needs to delete all rows where B=C and D=E. Bill solves this in the Power Query Editor but knows it is not efficient.

He turns to ChatGPT – an Artificial Intelligence tool that is in a free research preview. Bill is amazed at how quickly ChatGPT writes M code for Power Query. But then he bangs his head against the wall trying to get it to work.

See why Stack Overflow has banned ChatGPT because it generates code that is usually wrong but looks like it could work.

Finally, we turn to Continue reading “ChatGPT Versus 2 Humans Writing Power Query – 2355” →

The Year 2023 is 7 Times 17 Squared – 2354

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Happy New Year! I was scrolling through Facebook when Maria O pointed out that 2023 is 7*17^2. That seems interesting. Are there other times in our lifetime that the year is N*NN*^N?

It last happened in 2020. We have a run of them, coming up:
2023: 7*17^2
2025: 9*15^2
2028: 3*26^2

But even cooler is 2025, which is the perfect square of 45^2. Unless you were alive in 1936 or will be alive in 2116, the square year of 2025 will be the only square in our lifetimes.

Lonely Book Signings And Faster Way To Generate 729 Combinations – 2352

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You’ve probably seen the story of Chelsea Banning in the news lately. 37 people RSVP’d to her book signing and only two showed up. That is DOUBLE the turnout for my Manhattan book signing in 2003. Also in the episode: two faster ways to generate all 729 combinations of the outcome of World Cup Group Match Play.

Thanks to Exceλambda and Kyle F. for faster ways to generate all combinations of 0, 1, and 2 for 6 World Cup Group Stage Matches.