Transferring Data & Parameters Between Screens in PowerApps
If you’re new to PowerApps, be sure to read my brief introduction to PowerApps HERE In this session, I want to show you how to transfer data between screens. This assumes you have created a data connection (See also: Creating a connection to an Enterprise Gateway), and have brought some data into your app (in
Improvements in how CSV File Saves are Handled in Excel
Microsoft have this month released an update which addresses a small, yet incredibly annoying ‘feature’ when working with csv files in Excel. Read on to learn more.
Determine if a file is open in Excel or Google Sheets
We currently use a mixture of Excel and Google Sheets. Not ideal, but it’s important that any output I create can behave with both platforms, there are inherent differences in the platforms. Some of these differences simply can’t be accommodated for. Others, however, can be worked around From time to time, I need my document
Using TEXTJOIN and CONCATENATE for combining Text Strings in Excel
Learn about the different techniques for joining Text Strings in Excel, including the excellent new TEXTJOIN function
Showing Data Bars as a ‘Proportion to Total’ in Excel
Use this trick to show Excel Data Bars (the in-cell micro-chart) as a ‘percentage to total’ rather than relative to the max value
Creating Sunburst & TreeMap Charts in Excel 2016
Familiarise yourself with two of Excels fantastic new Chart Types – the Sunburst, and Treemap (collectively known as Hierarchical charts)
Using stacked images for your Excel Charts
Create colourful, engaging charts using stacked images in this comprehensive Excel walk through.
Creating Waterfall Charts in Excel 2016
Excel 2016 has given us a plethora of useful – and long overdue – chart types for us to work with. One of these, is the Waterfall Chart I‘ve written before about how to create a Waterfall Chart in Excel – it has long been one of the more challenging chart types to re-create, so
Add Labels to Outliers in Excel Scatter Charts
Scatter charts are a great way to present the relationship between two data points
In my example, I’m using a scatter charts to monitor student test results – I want to compare their latest test score against how that score has changed from their last test.
Using “Transparent” option in SSRS, and prevent the ‘Not a Valid BackgroundColor’ Error
In SSRS, if you’re building an expression to manage, for example, the background colour of a cell / shape, it’s easy to fall into the ‘Transparent Trap’ When building an expression, it’s easy to use the expression builder to add constants and built-in values. This is particularly true of the colour pallet, given you
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