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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

Posted on by Annie D

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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🔴 Microsoft Fabric / Power BI Q&A – LIVE (Mar 16, 2024) (Member Chat 2nd Half)

Posted on by Annie D

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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Include in Refresh can trip you up within Power Query

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You disabled Include In Refresh in Power Query, but it’s still being used? And you still need to provide credentials for your Power BI Semantic Mode? What?!? Adam breaks down what’s going on.

Managing query refresh in Power BI
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/connect-data/refresh-include-in-report-refresh

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Free Excel Webinar March 20 2024 from MrExcel #ExcelWebinar #Free

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Hey Excel enthusiasts! 📊 Join me, Bill Jelen, from MrExcel, for an epic free Excel webinar on Wednesday, March 20th, 2024, starting at noon Eastern time in the US. 🚀 Excited to unveil my latest book, “Mr. Excel 2024: Igniting Excel,” packed with 33 new topics! 🔥 Tune in to my YouTube channel as I dive into some of my favorite highlights. Let’s excel together! Don’t miss out, mark your calendars! 📅 #ExcelWebinar #MrExcel2024 #IgnitingExcel
Watch the Webinar here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LXvuSt2D5I

Rethinking Dashboard Design

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Understand the concept and anatomy of the Analytics Hub concept in Power BI and showcase modern prototyping and wireframing

Details of what you will learn during this video:
– Understand – the concept and anatomy of the Analytics Hub concept in Power BI
– Know – the tools that support us in creating an Analytics Hub such as development of HTML elements, design web applications, & browser-based UI and UX design applications
– Discover – a straightforward approach to creating reusable components for personalizing dashboards
– Showcase – modern prototyping and wireframing

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Dive into Microsoft Fabric’s Power BI Direct Lake

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Let’s break down Power BI Direct Lake in Microsoft Fabric and explain how you can leverage one copy of the data from OneLake. Patrick explains!

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

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