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August Update for Get & Transform / Power Query

3 September 2016

OK, so supposedly out in late August but only across our desk now, we thought we ought to bring you up to speed on the latest features to the ever-improving Power Query (Excel 2010 and Excel 2013) / Get & Transform (Excel 2016).


August Update for Power BI for Excel

26 August 2016

Microsoft has continued its regular updates of Power BI Publisher for Microsoft Excel with its late August update.


Windows 10 Anniversary Update

16 August 2016

We mentioned recently that it was Windows 10’s first birthday. Well… it bought itself a present and came up with an “anniversary update”.


Give the New Excel API a REST

13 August 2016

Early August has seen the Microsoft Excel team announce the general availability of the Microsoft Excel REST API for Office 365. You will be able to take a REST from now and never work again. Er no, that's apparently not how it works.This new Microsoft REST API for...


ModelOff 2016

2 August 2016

ModelOff has just announced the dates for the 2016 ModelOff "World Championship", with Round 1 kicking off on Saturday 22 October.We still think it's slightly aimed at the aggressive end of financial modelling (effectively, have you tried coding with boxing gloves?),...


Power Query / Get and Transform - July Updates

26 July 2016

Late July saw Microsoft announce 12 new data transformation and connectivity features. These updates are available as part of an Office 365 subscription, or if you have Excel 2010 or Excel 2013 you can also take advantage of these updates by downloading the latest...


July Power BI Updata

22 July 2016

That’s not a typo.With this month’s release of Power BI publisher for Excel, Analyze in Excel has become easier to use and can now be initiated directly from Excel using the Power BI publisher. With this release, there’s no longer any need to download .odc files or...


Faster PivotTables in Excel 2016

16 July 2016

PivotTables are now faster for those working in Excel 2016 with connections to Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) servers, either directly to an OLAP server or through a collection of data tables with relationships - known as a Data Model - in Excel. The recent...


Microsoft Wins Data Privacy Appeal

15 July 2016

A court has ruled on appeal that the US government cannot force Microsoft to give investigative authorities access to the firm's servers located in other countries.


Excel 2016 July Updates

11 July 2016

Last week saw some updates / additions to Excel 2016, chiefly for Office 365 (yes, Microsoft continues to try and sway you to buy a subscription). The key updates this month include:Shape recognition: Automatically transform your drawings into shapesNew connectors:...


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