Publish to Power BI

From the very beginning, Power BI allows us to import Excel workbooks in two ways: as a data source or as a report. This second option is useful when we already have ready-made reports that we want to use in parallel with Power BI reports. Recently, within the Microsoft 365 subscription, the Publish to Power BI option has appeared, which enables direct publishing of reports on the Power BI service. How does this work?

Solve Order

Calculated Items allow you to create formulas based on arithmetic operations between elements in rows and/or columns within a pivot table. Sometimes Excel can get confused and display incorrect results due to a misinterpretation of the order of computational operations. Solve order is an option with which we can change the order to get the correct result.

Import from PDF document

Exporting a table to PDF is not a new feature, it has been around for ten years or more. But how to import a table from a PDF document into Excel? This task is performed by Power Query which, since the latest version, has become an integral part of Excel and you can’t bypass it, no matter what kind of data you import into the application. Since recently he has this fantastic option, let’s see how it is used …

Header of Data tables

Structured tables (Data tables) or, as we call them, named ranges represent a group of cells that have been given a name and a filter to make it easier to view and work with the data they contain. If these tables start from the first cell in the worksheet, you can set the cell header to appear instead of the worksheet header. To be more precise, instead name of the columns they contain.

Additional Teams apps

Microsoft Teams allows you to easily access additional applications from the main menu – cloud services and connectors that you will use in your daily work. There are a handful of useful applications, organized by categories, which improve the functionality of Teams such as: Forms, Shifts, Approvals, Stream, Power BI, One Note and many others …