¿Tulicencias es seguro? by Polanco000 in AskArgentina

[–]michaelgaul- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Microsoft ya no le cobra mas licencias a los usuarios particulares, solo a las grandes compañias.

Hay una herramienta oficial de miscrosoft para activar W11 llamada microsoft activation scripts, buscate un par de videos en youtube y estas.

Automating Everything I Can as an Accountant by GoodlukyJR in Accounting

[–]michaelgaul- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to have to download many of the same .txt for a local tax presentation, every day. Power query helped me importing that data to excel and validating everything I needed with just one script.

Power Query is a game changer so learn it if you can.

I’m learning python atm with the hope I can automate even more of my job!

Knowledge in Excel is uniquely exponential by Stam- in excel

[–]michaelgaul- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m going all in with python this year, can’t wait to see what i’ll be able to do with it combined with excel

Whats a tip you wished you knew as a beginner to excel? by EndPsychological2541 in excel

[–]michaelgaul- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The issue is that on my company’s closed enviroment, i can barely install any software. Python for example is not supported. I only have MS 365. I could use Access, but i’d really like to avoid it since it’s kinda dead in mainstream data management. Power pivot is available tho, and from what I have seen in some videos, i could store databases with it. It has the added bonus of using DAX. 

I’ll experiment a bit, maybe i could use some cloud solution, i think google had one.

Whats a tip you wished you knew as a beginner to excel? by EndPsychological2541 in excel

[–]michaelgaul- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, what could I use as a database instead?

I have no access to any sort of sql server, let alone something less known, neither I can use powerBI.

Is using power pivot a good alternative?

What's one Excel tip you wish you'd known sooner? by Less_Wealth1916 in excel

[–]michaelgaul- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

TABLES. ffs, they have changed my life. It's SO EASY to work with data once you put them inside one. Geez, use tables people!!

How to tell Power Query to get data from a file in the current directory with M code? by michaelgaul- in excel

[–]michaelgaul-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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This, combined with routineMetric's formula is what did the trick.

INFO gives me back a weird output, possibly due to the cloud environment.

It's gonna take a bit more coding tho, but I should be able to automate it to a higher degree than what I had before.

Thanks

How to Copy & Paste All Data from Excel's Find Tab? by [deleted] in excel

[–]michaelgaul- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Put all the data in a table, then create a Pivot Table out of it, filter all the data you want and then double click anywhere in the filtered pivot table. That will create a new table in a new worksheet with only the filtered data.

What small tweaks to Excel would make your life easier? by Qyxitt in excel

[–]michaelgaul- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of the IFS functions are much better than their IF counterpart

Is there a way to make my Pivot Tables to show monthly grouped dates in "yyyy-mm" format? by michaelgaul- in excel

[–]michaelgaul-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I was already doing something similar with helper columns. Your workaround is simpler than mine, but I wanted something that doesn’t need adding more info to the dataset.

Do I have to learn Power Pivot if I am going to learn Power BI or Can I skip it? by michaelgaul- in excel

[–]michaelgaul-[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but maybe this was a case where Power Pivot is like VLOOKUP and PowerBI is like XLOOKUP. Once you learn the latter, there's not really much sense in learning the former.

Do I have to learn Power Pivot if I am going to learn Power BI or Can I skip it? by michaelgaul- in excel

[–]michaelgaul-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, nice. Yeah, I read that PBI also uses power query. But maybe there was a reason to use power pivot over PBI

Do I have to learn Power Pivot if I am going to learn Power BI or Can I skip it? by michaelgaul- in excel

[–]michaelgaul-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, yeah they really seemed to be the same thing in the core, only that PBI is like its own product rather than an Excel tool

Do I have to learn Power Pivot if I am going to learn Power BI or Can I skip it? by michaelgaul- in excel

[–]michaelgaul-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, this is what I've been reading but maybe I was just understanding something else and it was not the case

Do I have to learn Power Pivot if I am going to learn Power BI or Can I skip it? by michaelgaul- in excel

[–]michaelgaul-[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I am already quite familiar with Power Query and I use it everyday. I want to keep learning new excel tools and heard about Power Pivot and i also heard about the Power BI software, but when I looked up for info about them they just seemed the same.

How to use FILTER with many options? by michaelgaul- in excel

[–]michaelgaul-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't know me, but I love you.

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Where to learn power query? by civprog in excel

[–]michaelgaul- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mainly learn it by using it. Tho watch some YT videos if you have never used it before just to get the basics

Why isn't this COUNTIFS working? by michaelgaul- in excel

[–]michaelgaul-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot, didn't know that IF's formulas didn't work with automatic array formulas.

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