Arranging data sets in Excel reports can sometimes get complicated, for example when you are editing a list of visitors to your stand at a business fair or congress. Then we usually manually copy the lists, merge them, and further remove duplicates. Excel has some new functions that allow you to literally do this procedure in a couple of steps, and in the following “recipe” you will find out how to apply them in practice.
For several years now, Power BI and Excel have been developing side by side with the idea that analysts do not save all their tables exclusively on a local computer, OneDrive or SharePoint repositories, but that they can also download them from Power BI reports that are published on the company’s tenant. If you use a Microsoft365 subscription that is connected to a company account, you can easily retrieve such tables.
The LET command exists in several programming languages and is used to assign values to variables. In a similar way in Excel, you can declare one or more variables, assign values to them, and define the expression in which they are used using the LET function. This is especially beneficial when there are parts within the formula that are repeated several times. The LET function, in addition to shortening the formula, also significantly affects the performance …
Icons are illustrations that we first encountered when Office 2019 appeared. Although we could find a multitude of icons, divided by categories, Office 2021 has significantly improved this segment so that now, in addition to a rich icon gallery, you can add images, transparent photos of people, stickers, or other vector images that can enhance the look of your report. Let’s see how this is used!
Sharing and collaborating on documents in the OneDrive repository is not a new feature. Still, Office 2021 has taken it to a significantly higher level. Collaboration on a document is available in most Office applications, and in this “recipe” we will focus on Excel: how to share a document, how to see what your peers are doing, and how Sheet View works – a view of a document in which you see your own changes.