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The Case for Access
Amazon says it's official. My new book will be out on April 5th. This book is written for all you Excel users who know that expanding your skill-set to include Access can make you more productive. I...
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Can’t Export More than 65,000 Rows to Excel 2007?
Kusleika and I are at the Excel and Access Power User Workshop this week. Between you and me, he's not doing that well. Anyway, one of our attendees asked why Access 2007 can't export more than 65,000...
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Converting Text to Proper Case in Access
Wendy writes to ask: "In Excel, I can use the PROPER function to change my text to proper case. Why is there is no PROPER function in Access? " Wendy has stumbled on one of the mysteries of life -...
View ArticleRunning an Excel Macro from Access (or Another Excel Workbook)
One of the more common questions I get revolves around running an Excel macro from Access. That is, how do you fire an existing Excel macro from Access. I'll share the code to do that in a moment. I...
View ArticleWhat to do When Late Binding Fails on Excel Constants
Back in 2009, I created a video that described how Late Binding your automation can fail when dealing with Excel Constants. With that video, I published a set of Excel Enumerations you can use to avoid...
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10 Little Known Facts about Excel’s Humble Beginnings
Excel turns 30 today! Yes, the program that has served as the foundation for my paycheck for over 15 years was saved to a Master Disk and rushed to market on this day in 1985. Given the impact Excel...
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Winner of the Dallas Power BI Boot Camp
Anyone know this guy? His name is Alex Powers. Alex is a Generation X’er, Excel expert, cat lover, and winner of the free seat to my Power BI Bootcamp in Dallas. He was randomly chosen from the...
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VBA to JavaScript Translator
It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been enthralled with updating a few of my books for Office 2016 and learning about the inner workings of Web Apps for Office. For those of you who don’t know,...
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Lock Slicers Before Sending Out your Dashboards
Last week, I hosted my Power BI Boot Camp here in Dallas. The folks that attended were seriously one of the best crowds I’ve met. Lots of great discussion about the new era of Power BI and data...
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Adding Dynamic Annotations for your Charts
Here’s a quick idea for anyone who needs to show annotations or comments on their charts. Tie your annotations to a check box so that users can interactively decide to show them or not. The annotations...
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Books, Old Man Skywalker, and Plagiarism
Hey there! Remember me? I’m back from a long 6 weeks of finishing up several book projects. Feels weird to be back at the office. I’m getting a lot of perky people asking me how my holiday went. Mrs....
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Four Must-Know Options if You’re Using Power Query
Over the last year, Microsoft has added a few options to Power Query that you should definitely embrace (if you’re working extensively with Power Query). These options alleviate some of the annoying...
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Use Power Query to Get a List of Hidden and System Directories
So here’s a nifty Power Query trick that lets you grab a listing of all Directories and their attributes. If you don’t know, Power Query lets you get a list of files from a folder. You get a nice...
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Understanding the MOD function
After weeks of struggling to get this blog upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, it’s finally up and going again. I’ve had to constantly engage in hand-to-hand combat with WordPress over the...
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Entering More than 31 Characters in a Worksheet Tab Name
When giving a worksheet tab a name, most people think that you can’t enter more than 31 characters. But guess what…you can! In this post, I’ll show you how to enter more than 31 characters in a...
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Editing Shape Points to Create Custom Graphics
I’m working on updating my Dashboard Tools Add-in to add more modern looking infographics and maps. I’ve discovered a neat feature called Edit Points. When working with a shape, you can right-click and...
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Power Pivot and Power Query for Dummies
Need to get a quick ramp-up on Power Pivot and Power Query? Good news…A new book just dropped on Amazon. Learn how to: Create your own database right in Excel with Power Pivot Make pivot tables that...
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New DataPig Dashboard Tools Free this Week
I’ve completed updating my Dashboard Tools Add-in to add a few new useful tidbits. With the new features, you can create nifty infographics like this one: Here are a few highlights of the new...
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Getting Rid of Ugly Page Break Lines
Have you ever sent an Excel report out to your audience just to find out that it prints on 20 pages? To avoid that embarrassment, I routinely adjust the page breaks on my reports so that users don’t...
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Easy File Search with Tags and the Document Location Widget
I’m back from a long hiatus from blogging. While I was gone, I had a project that involved helping a client tag hundreds of Excel files for easier searching. The Basics of Using Document Tags For those...
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