Excel 2024: Data From Picture is Not Power Query


November 21, 2024 - by

Excel 2024: Data From Picture is Not Power Query

This is a feature that does deserve to be in this book. I am putting it in the book to warn you about the feature. Next to all of the great Power Query features is a drop-down for Data From Picture. The concept - use your phone to take a picture of a receipt. Then, copy the image, use Picture From Clipboard and Excel can insert data from the picture into Excel.

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Excel 2024: Use Fuzzy Match in Power Query

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November 18, 2024 - by Bill Jelen


There's a research and development team at Microsoft known as Microsoft Labs. Almost 10 years ago, it invented a free Fuzzy Match add-in for Excel. A fuzzy matching algorithm looks for words that share a percentage of characters in common.

Excel 2024: Clean Data with Power Query

Excel 2024: Clean Data with Power Query »

November 14, 2024 - by Bill Jelen


Power Query is built in to Windows versions of Office 365, Excel 2016, Excel 2019 and is available as a free download in Windows versions of Excel 2010 and Excel 2013. The tool is designed to extract, transform, and load data into Excel from a variety of sources.

Excel 2024: Improve Your Macro Recording

Excel 2024: Improve Your Macro Recording »

November 11, 2024 - by Bill Jelen


I loved the 1985 version of the Macro Recorder in Lotus 1-2-3. The code was hard to understand, but it worked. There are some defaults in the Excel Macro Recorder that cause misery for anyone trying to record macros. Here are three tips to make the macro experience possibly better.

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