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. This month, we just wanted you to convert numbers stored as Text into Numbers. Easy, yes?

On the final Friday of each month, we are going to set an Excel / Power BI challenge for you to puzzle over so that you can get your “Excel fix”. Challenge your office colleagues to see who can solve the puzzle quickest. There are no prizes at this stage: you are playing for bragging rights only! This is based upon a real life problem we encountered recently, which was not as easy to solve as thought it would be. See how you fare.

Welcome back to this week’s edition of the Power BI blog series. This week, we look at how to reorganise some data from a table with a single column.

Welcome to our Power Query blog. This week, I look at a solution that involves inclusion.

In our long-established Power Pivot Principles articles, we continue our series on the A to Z of Data Analysis eXpression (DAX) functions. Things are getting BETA this time…

Welcome back to our regular A to Z of Excel Functions blog. Today we look at the LOG10 function.

Welcome back to our Charts and Dashboards blog series. This week, I start to create a Thermometer chart.

Welcome back to this week’s edition of the Power BI blog series. This week, we look at a problem when sorting a column by another column.

Welcome to our Power Query blog. This week, I continue transforming some data that is coming in from a PDF file by working with last week’s function.

In our long-established Power Pivot Principles articles, we are starting a new series on the A to Z of Data Analysis eXpression (DAX) functions. It’s another average function this time out…