Happy New Year!
It’s the first of January 2022, so let me start by wishing you all a Happy New Year! Given how the past 1¾ years have panned out due to the COVID-19 pandemic, here’s hoping 2022 sees the gradual return of…
How to Create an Animated Christmas Tree in Excel 🎄
Christmas Day is here, so what better way to celebrate the big day than creating something Chrimbo-themed (in Excel, of course). I am going to show you how to create a pixel art Christmas tree with flashing lights that switch…
How Fast is Fast Data Load in Power Query?
In my previous article, Analysing 10 Million Rows in Excel, I showed you how to load a dataset into Power Query consisting of 10 million rows. In truth, it can handle a lot more than that, but I just wanted…
Analysing 10 Million Rows in Excel
Big data is a term used since the early 1990s to describe “huge, overwhelming, and uncontrollable amounts of information”. The rapid rise of the internet has meant the volume of data has increased exponentially over the past two decades. There…
Excel Cell Errors Explained
Staring at a worksheet with a plethora of errors is not sightly, but it can be your saving grace for diagnosing formula problems. Over a dozen error types exist, and chances are you will have seen most of them at…
How to Calculate Multiple Values in the Same Cell
The standard way of storing data in Excel is to have one cell for one value. However, a value might be composed of multiple parts — making it harder to work with. You might also copy content from a webpage, only to…
