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RE: Calculate Same Period Last Week and % Change

It returns blank in a card because the card has no row context for the 'Date'. i.e. it doesn't know what the date is that it should be based on. I...

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RE: merging 2 sheets with data structured differently

Rename the columns before appending so they match and then Power Query will know they are the same.

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RE: Pivot table connects to wrong power pivot model

That's ok. You can download the data to one Excel file and then connect to that file with Power Query from a separate file to bring the data into the ...

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RE: merging 2 sheets with data structured differently

Hi Gosia, You can append them and any columns that don't match will be empty for one dataset and vice versa. Mynda

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RE: Pivot table connects to wrong power pivot model

Power Query offers a more efficient method for loading data into Power Pivot. If you load data already present in your Excel workbook into the Power P...

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RE: Pivot table connects to wrong power pivot model

In theory, you should be able to save a copy of the file or rename the file and the queries and data model and connected PivotTables all relate to the...

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RE: Pivot table connects to wrong power pivot model

Hi Linda, Glad you found a solution. I expect that your old PivotTables would need to be deleted to get rid of the connection to the old data mo...

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RE: removing duplicates

Hi Gosia, You could add a column that converts the values in the Price Sold column to contain all positive values, let's call this column 'Value'. ...

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RE: Calculate Same Period Last Week and % Change

Hi Danielle, Thanks for clarifying. When working with averages it doesn't make sense to subtract one period's values from another. In the file ...

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RE: Calculate Same Period Last Week and % Change

Hi Danielle, Why are you dividing it by 86400? The source data already contains the average queue answer time, then the measure averages those valu...

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RE: Importing text file in power pivot data model 3.06

Hi Shruti, Please see the comment/note below the video for that lesson. Mynda

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RE: Lesson 7.05 - File Error

Glad you figured it out. What version of Excel do you have? I ask because you're using the files from the 2010 to 2013 version of the course. If you h...

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RE: Calculate Same Period Last Week and % Change

Hi Danielle, Thanks for the file. Please see file attached where I've focused on just one measure for the % Change v Prior Week Contacts Queued. ...

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RE: Lesson 6.05 Remove Column

I'm a bit confused. To clarify, did the Date/Time column in Power Query had the Date/Time data type set? If so, it should feed through to Excel as a d...

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RE: Lesson 7.05 - File Error

Hi Douglas, You can edit the hard keyed reference to 'Weekday' with 'Column1' via the formula bar or advanced editor. That should fix the issue. ...

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