Fixing cell addresses is an old topic. However, when you create a structured table (data table) and try to copy a formula that points to a cell inside it, the rules of the game change. That is, the address will not be updated as desired. These addresses can also be fixed, and in the text that follows you will learn how to do this.
The FREQUENCY function is used to calculate how often certain values in a given range are repeated. This is an array function, and we can use it to calculate a distribution by which we can see how many points students have scored on a test and for other similar statistical analyzes. To help you understand how the function works will also illustrate this with a simple chart …
One of the earlier posts referred to date hierarchies, a relatively new functionality that allows the month, quarter, or year to be automatically created based on a column containing a date (depending on the data that column contains). This can cause a problem with previous reports that contain dates, and the user wants to see them as originally created. How to solve this?
Conditional formatting is an option that has been gradually added to Table and Matrix visual. Now we can safely say that Power BI Desktop has almost everything we used in Excel to build the reports where we applied this option. As of July 2019, conditional formatting also supports icon sets, and in the text below you will be able to learn how to use all of these options.
We’ll use a quote from a familiar joke as an introduction to a problem you might encounter in everyday work: how to get the user to enter data only in a predefined cell group? There are several ways to achieve this, and one of the easiest is to format these cells in the desired manner (eg, set a specific background color) and to prevent entry into the cells that are not formatted in a given manner.