I’m not sure how proficient Mr Trump is at Excel, but I just discovered something bound to pique his interest… 🇺🇸🇲🇽 In the ribbon border dropdown on the Home tab (also found in the right-click formatting menu), selecting ‘Thick Bottom…
Prediction: Excel will get a new logo next year. On Monday (30 September), Excel celebrated its 39th birthday. This means it’s just one year off the big four-zero. If that milestone is not significant enough, it’s worth remembering that Microsoft…
Whilst reading an article about England’s 2–0 win against the Irish yesterday, I came across a couple of charts I’ve not seen the BBC use before. Gauge charts — aka dial charts, speedometer charts, or meter charts. They were used…
Alarm clocks — who uses one anymore? I’m talking about the dedicated kind — not the virtual one on your smartphone. Last night, I built a quick alarm clock in Excel. This was an offshoot of something else I’ve been…
Back in December 2021, How Fast is Fast Data Load in Power Query? demonstrated how long it took to load varying-sized datasets into the Data Model with and without Power Query’s Fast Data Load enabled. What’s changed since then? Well,…
Here’s a chart Excel needs: a cartogram. It’s a type of map that represents geographic regions with shapes sized according to a specific data variable rather than their land area, which can affect the interpretation of a result. If you’ve…
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