White House 2016 budget in 3D using Power Map for Excel
Today’s post was written by Igor Peev, senior program manager on the Power Map for Excel team. On February 19th, I received an email from Vice President Joe Biden. I have never had the pleasure to...
View ArticleExploring Manhattan with Excel Power Map
Today’s post was written by Daniel Witriol, senior program manager on the Excel Power Map team. New York is an iconic city with a rich history of innovation. I have a lot of family in New York and...
View ArticleBeyondCore’s new apps for Office helps find insights in your data automatically
Imagine an analyst who can quickly analyze and present data to help you see if you are meeting your business objectives such as increase profits, reduce costs or decrease patient length of stay. The...
View ArticleCricket World Cup fever–analyzing the data with Power Query
With the 2015 Cricket World Cup in full swing, there’s all sorts of folks who are interested in digging into the details about their home team, their upcoming rivals or their favorite players. With all...
View ArticleTeaching Excel and data analysis—one professor’s efforts to prepare students...
Today’s post on Excel was written by Felienne Hermans, an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, where she heads the Spreadsheet Lab. Should a university teach a...
View Article5 easy and powerful Excel features you may not know about
Today’s post on Excel was written by Purna Duggirala president of chandoo.org. We all know that Excel is packed with tons of powerful features, libraries of formulas and galleries of interesting...
View Article6 updates for Power Query for Excel
Today’s post was written by Miguel Llopis, program manager on the Power Query team. A Power Query for Excel update is now available for you and is packed with lots of new features including: New...
View ArticleTake control of data with Excel’s business analytics tools
Today, businesses are required to understand a growing amount of company, market and social data to drive effective business decisions and remain competitive. This trend of analytics everywhere is...
View Article11 updates to Power Query
This month’s Power Query update includes 11 new or improved features including: Support for all Excel 2013 Desktop SKUs OData V4 support Unified Options dialog Option to disable the Native Database...
View ArticlePower Map for Excel–May update for Office 365
Today’s post was written by Igor Peev and Daniel Witriol, program managers on the Power Map team. In the May 2015 update of Office 365 we are proud to introduce a new core feature to Power Map: Custom...
View Article4 updates to Power Query
This month’s Power Query update includes four new or improved features including: Enhanced Privacy levels dialog New Text column filters: “Does Not Begin With…” and “Does Not End With…” Improved...
View ArticleTake the Excel Challenge for a chance to win a Kinect for Xbox 360 prize pack
We have some great news for Excel fans around the world! Our friends over at Microsoft Business Intelligence have launched an exciting new challenge on Facebook to test your skills and knowledge of...
View ArticleFormat and customize Excel 2013 charts quickly with the new Formatting Task pane
The new Excel offers a rich set of charting capabilities that make creating and customizing charts simpler and more intuitive. One part of the fluid new experience is the Formatting Task pane. Until...
View ArticleUsing conditional formatting to highlight dates in Excel
This tutorial on using conditional formatting to highlight dates is brought to us by MVP Frédéric Le Guen, with special acknowledgment and thanks to Ken Puls for assistance with translation from French...
View ArticleExcel Geek Express—otherwise known as Quick Analysis
Guest blogger Emily Warn is co-owner of Two Pens, which provides blogging services and teaches business how to write content that grows a social media following. My writer friends think I’m a geek. You...
View ArticleImproved data grid for charts in Word and PowerPoint
This post is brought to you by Kevin Donovan, a Program Manager in the Graphics and Data Visualizations Team. One of the overlooked improvements that we added to charting in the new Office applications...
View ArticleSumming data across multiple criteria on multiple worksheets
Liam Bastick has provided financial modelling services and training to clients for more than two decades. A senior accountant and professional mathematician, he has worked in numerous countries with...
View ArticleOffice Web Apps Announcements
Yesterday we announced some exciting news about Web Excel (and all of the Office Web Apps) over on the Office 365 Blog. Specifically, we announced that we’ll be improving the Web Apps to be a...
View ArticleNew server release: Spreadsheet controls in Office 2013
This blog post was originally published in September 2012, and we’ve updated it to announce the recent release of the server applications. It is brought to you by Steve Kraynak, Office Program Manager...
View ArticleSimplify management of an Excel Power View template by using a VSTO add-in
Today’s tutorial is brought to us by MVP Dennis Wallentin, who has been developing Excel business solutions since the 1980s. He is the founder of XL-Dennis, author of various articles for MSDN and...
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