PowerBI is the Microsoft Cloud service that allows you to download data from different sources, their storage and processing in order to generate vivid reports that an be seen on almost every platform imaginable. This is a tool that Microsoft has high hopes on and which is developing at an incredible rate. Every month there is a new version that fixes bugs and brings new functionalities.
Most of us are using Google Maps, but a few years ago Microsoft also went into the race and created its own version of the maps named after its Bing search engine. From Excel 2016 exists an add-in with the same name that you can use to display charts on maps. It allows you to display data, in a form of charts, positioned on maps that can be customized to the desired report layout.
In the previous “recipe” you could read about add-ins that you can download from the Office Store. One of them is called People Graph, and starting from the 2016 version, it’s a standard part of Excel. People Graph is convenient for showing charts that describe the results of a survey in which a population is being tested. It is used in a very simple way, and it enables the creation of picturesque reports.
Office Store is a repository from which you can download a number of add-ins, arranged by categories, developed by the rich programming community, which gives you the ability to improve the reporting capabilities of Excel. Additions differ from traditional charts because they often have an interactivity element. Look at them as small apps that serve to improve the look of your reports.
Slicers are graphic objects that are used as an interactive filters for filtering reports in Pivot and Power Pivot reports. In combination with certain DAX functions they can be used for setting the parameters of the calculation. The following recipe will show you how to do a sales report in which, according to chosen exchange rate, you can see results in different currencies. To test a status of a slicer will be used function HASONEVALUE.