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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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Generate Random Data Sets with Dates & Sales Numbers: RANDARRAY Function. Excel Magic Trick 1857

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Download Excel File: https://excelisfun.net/files/EMT1857-1858.xlsx
Learn how to create a data set with dates and sales numbers using an Excel Formula.
Topics:
1. (00:00) Create Inputs for Randon Data Set
2. (00:37) Create Random Dates using RANDARRAY function
3. (01:21) Create Random Sales amounts using RANDARRAY & ROUND function
4. (02:00) Paste Special Values Trick!
5. (03:00) Closing, Video Links

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Getting started with Visual Calcs in Power BI

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It’s been a long time coming but Visual Calculations within Power BI are here!!! Jay joins us to get us started on using Visual Calcs within our reports.

Share your thoughts on visual calculations (preview)
https://aka.ms/visual-calculations-feedback

Using visual calculations (preview)
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/transform-model/desktop-visual-calculations-overview

Jeroen (Jay) ter Heerdt
https://twitter.com/JayPowerBI
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeroenterheerdt/
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9 1/2 Tips for Awesome Visualization in Power BI

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Learn some tips and tricks for awesome visualization in Power BI.

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– Learn a variety of Power BI tips and techniques to use yourself in Power BI 
– Review how to develop solutions that solve multiple real-world business problems 
– Showcase how to create compelling visuals within your dashboards 

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Uncovering OneLake’s Secrets with Delta Analyzer in Microsoft Fabric

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You need to make sure your delta files in OneLake are healthy! Phil has you covered with a Delta Analyzer notebook that you can use within Microsoft Fabric to check on things.

Delta Analyzer
https://aka.ms/deltaanalyzer

Phil Seamark
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/seamark/
https://dax.tips

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Power Query Table.Group Function Fifth Argument: Comparer Function: Group without Key. EMT 1856

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Download Excel File: https://excelisfun.net/files/EMT1854-1856.xlsx
Learn how to group transactions with no key or invoice number using Power Query and the Table.Group fourth and fifth arguments: groupKind and comparer function. Group By when there is no key column and there are duplicates and empty cells. How to group transactions with no transaction number and repeating dates and empty cells.
Topics:
1. (00:00) Introduction
2. (00:28) Group By Date Column with two aggregate calculations: join descriptions and sum amount.
3. (01:00) Text.Combine with Column Lookup to join descriptions
4. (02:10) Table.Group fourth argument: groupKind using GroupKing.Local or zero, 0
5. (02:56) Table.Group fifth argument: comparer function
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🔴 Microsoft Fabric / Power BI Q&A – LIVE (Mar 2, 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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All Code!!! Extract ZIP files with Notebooks in Microsoft Fabric

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Who needs NOCODE? Patrick takes you on a journey where you can extract ZIP files within a Notebook in Microsoft Fabric. Also found a very cool feature in Notebooks!

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Use Excel to Build & Validate Complex DAX

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Discover how to visualize, debug, validate, and solve complex DAX problems using Excel

Details of what you will learn during this video:
Know – how to form DAX logic by creating Excel rough work
Discover – how to visualize and solve complex DAX problems using Excel
Learn – to debug and validate calculations using Excel

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