Category Archives: Excel 2013

Modeloff GTC in New York City – Dec 4-5, 2017

Just a note that I will be in New York on Monday and Tuesday Dec 4 & 5 exhibiting and presenting at: Modeloff GTC New York I will be showing the latest iteration of the XLPublish add-in on exhibit with … Continue reading

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XLPublish Is Here !!!

Today Personal Logic Associates Inc. is proud to ship XLPublish – our new Add-in for Excel that makes publishing your Excel data in Power BI Easy, Reliable and Repeatable. With XLPublish you can make your current Excel Ranges, Tables, Pivot … Continue reading

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XLPublish Is Almost Here !

    This is a heads-up about the imminent release of the new XLPublish add-in written by myself and David Hoppe. If you go to our Website ( xlpublish.com )  there is an explanation of what this is. We will … Continue reading

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How To Really Publish Excel Data To Power BI … Part III

OK .. Let’s go … Part III … !! In this post I will try to explain how (and especially how not) to get your Excel data into Power BI Desktop in a way that will allow you to schedule refreshes … Continue reading

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How To Really Publish Excel Data To Power BI … Part Deux (amended)

Just a quick note for those that looked at and perhaps tried out the code in the post of a couple of weeks ago ( https://dmoffat.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/how-to-really-publish-excel-data-to-power-bi-part-deux/)  .   I have made a very small but very important change to the … Continue reading

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How To Really Publish Excel Data To Power BI … Part Deux

A couple of weeks ago I published a length post detailing the techniques I have developed to successfully export Excel data to Power BI.  I have had some interesting responses and I have since evolved my thinking on this, and … Continue reading

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How To Really Publish Excel Data To Power BI

OK .. I’m going to try to make this as short as I possibly can. I am sick of docs that do not explain to people how to REALLY accomplish something 😦  … I want this to be different but … Continue reading

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Tech Support Call From 1985

I received THIS request for tech support YESTERDAY … Hi Dick, Would you please tell me what a Code A is and how we fix it. When we try to add soy loads to one of the years we get … Continue reading

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How To Change Data Sources Dynamically In Excel With Power Query

My Crow Eating Exercise This past week I asked on this blog whether anyone out there was using the technique I wrote about years ago for dynamically changing the Source Connections for Power Pivot Tables in Excel.  I have noticed … Continue reading

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How To Change Connection Type In Power Pivot

Every day, day in and day out, the most popular posting I have here is this one: How You Can Change To Another Connection Type In PowerPivot and this one: Building a Flexible and Efficient Client-Side PowerPivot Solution in Excel 2013 I … Continue reading

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