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Final Friday Fix: May 2025 Challenge

30 May 2025

On the final Friday of each month, we set an Excel / Power Pivot / Power Query / Power BI problem for you to puzzle over for the weekend.  On the Monday, we publish a solution.  If you think there is an alternative answer, feel free to email us.  We’ll feel free to ignore you.

 

The Challenge

This month’s Final Friday Fix invites you to create a PivotTable that provides the date of the month only when displaying dates, viz.

to this:

A list is provided containing a set of dates and sales you may use to create your PivotTable:

You can download the question file here

Guidelines to get the most out of this challenge, you may:

  • use PivotTables only
  • not use conditional formatting
  • not use Excel formulae
  • not use VBA, Office Scripts or any other programming code.

 

Sounds easy?  Then why not have a go?  We’ll publish one solution in Monday’s blog.  Have a great weekend in the meantime!

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