Excel for Mac is now getting the ‘From Folder’ option in PowerQuery. An important part of the PowerQuery puzzle. PowerQuery’s ‘From Folder’ lets you add more data to a query simply by adding data files into a folder. PowerQuery will then scoop up all the data and add it to Excel. Among the many choices […]
Use Excel to get your own automatically updating Medal Table for the 2024 Paris Olympics then make charts and maps too. Our newsletter readers get a working example workbook to try themselves. Not interested in the Olympic medal count? This article and download are a good, working example of how to automatically download from a […]
Here’s some more ordinal rank (First, 2nd etc.) options for Excel including with joint or equal results plus special fun wording. In a previous article we looked at options for showing ordinal numbers in Excel, now we’ll go a step further to cope with joint or equal results plus special wording. On the left are […]
A US government department has accidentally revealed a secret by overlooking the obvious in Office document security, the file name. Microsoft Office helps you scrub documents of private or secret information before sending. It’s easy to overlook the obvious data leaks that ‘Inspect Document’ doesn’t cover. ‘Inspect Document’ checks for hidden information in the document […]
Excel on the web has a new look and some nifty extra features like better ways to arrange rows/columns – move, resize, insert. A clever Freeze Pane option too. Some of these we’d love to see in desktop Excel. Overall, the web version of the Office apps now look more like the modern desktop apps […]
