Today I’ll present an adjustment to the Text.SplitAny – function in Power BI’s query editor or Power Query. The native function takes a string as an input and splits the (…) Read more
Posts in Category ‘Excel’
Unravel cumulative totals to their initial elements in Power BI and Power Query
Recently I came across an interesting request where someone wanted to un-cumulate their quarterly YTD-figures (green) into their single quarters values (red) like so (“Unravel cumulative totals”): Task Method To (…) Read more
Comparing Table.AlternateRows with List.Alternate in Power BI and Power Query
I must admit that I had more than one unsuccessful attempt to try to fully understand how the List.Alternate-function works. What helped me at the end, was the function Table.AlternateRows. (…) Read more
How to do a real VLOOKUP (false) in Power Query or Power BI
When you merge tables with distinct keys in Power Query you will get the same result than the VLOOKUP-function in Excel returns (if this is new to you, check out (…) Read more
Improve import of Excel sheets with empty rows and columns in Power Query and Power BI
When you import Excel sheets who have empty leading or trailing columns and rows (showing null-values), you can substantially improve the complexity and speed of your import process with a (…) Read more
Efficiently rename columns with a function in Power BI and Power Query
Edit 2018-July-05: As it turns out I’ve missed the native function that exists with exact the same functionality: Table.TransformColumnNames Thanks to Tristan Malherbe for pointing this out 🙂 But anyway: (…) Read more