Combining LEFT, SEARCH and VLOOKUP

3rd December 2017
/ Excel
/ By Grant Gamble

Excel Online Training To complete this tutorial, you will need to download and UnZip the following file from GoogleDrive; it contains two versions of the workbook used in the tutorial: the start version and the completed version. Download the tutorial workbook(s) In the download tutorial folder, open “04 Manipulating Text”; and then open the Excel […]

Connecting to Web Page Data in Power BI

21st October 2017
/ Power BI
/ By Grant Gamble

As well as retrieving data from a web URL, Power BI also allows you to retrieve data from within the web page itself. In this tutorial article, we will see how easy it is to connect to online data and incorporate it into your own data models. The files used in this tutorial can be […]

Getting Started with Power BI – Pt 4

25th September 2017
/ Power BI
/ By Grant Gamble

Part 4 (of 4): Creating a Report in Power BI Desktop 2 Click here to download the tutorial work files Power BI online training In the previous tutorial in this series, we discussed the use of the synoptic panel custom visual to build a car damage report; and we examined the completed report. In this […]

Getting Started with Power BI – Pt 3

11th September 2017
/ Power BI
/ By Grant Gamble

Part 3 (of 4): Creating a Report in Power BI Desktop 1 Click here to download the tutorial work files Power BI online training So far, we have connected to a data source and we now have these two tables loaded into the data model available for building reports. On the left, we have three […]

Getting Started with Power BI – Pt 2

14th July 2017
/ Power BI
/ By Grant Gamble

Part 2 (of 4): Working in the Query Editor Click here to download the tutorial work files Power BI online training Let us now look in a bit more detail at the three parts of Power BI that we saw earlier: Power BI Desktop, the Power BI service and Power BI mobile apps. We will […]

Getting Started with Power BI – Pt 1

11th July 2017
/ Power BI
/ By Grant Gamble

Part 1 (of 4): the Power BI Product Click here to download the tutorial work files Power BI online training Microsoft Power BI consists of three parts Power BI Desktop, the Power BI service and Power BI mobile apps. Power BI Desktop is the workhorse of the three: this is where you connect with your […]