Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 March 2024
There's a famous sentence which reads "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana". It turns out that this is just one example of a sentence deliberately designed to lead you up the garden path ...
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 March 2024
Chat GPT now incorporates a range of mini GPTs dedicated to different tasks. We put a few through their paces, so that you don't have to!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 09 February 2024
A series of steps that you can follow to convert UK format postcodes into latitude and longitude data for use in Power BI Desktop visuals.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 January 2024
We've discovered two (more) Windows short-cut keys which will help you work with multiple screens - and there's also a new Copilot key coming to your keyboard soon.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 January 2024
This update includes lots of updates to the formatting of bar/column charts, even more data label formatting options and better clustered bubble chart formatting for Azure Maps.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 January 2024
It's time to bite the Power BI bullet and revamp our courseware (our last update was nearly two years ago).
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 January 2024
If anyone rang the office on Monday 29th January and wondered where we were - here's the answer!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 February 2024
See if you can name the 5 Abba songs identified in these pictures, and win a £25 voucher to boot!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 January 2024
Congratulations to Paul M of Rochdale Borough Council for winning our New Year quiz (and a £50 voucher). This blog shows which questions were the easiest and hardest, and gives some background information and analysis.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 January 2024
If you have something to say about the content of one of our web pages, you can now say it with pictures! Implementing an HTML editor which accepts images is not easy, but we're pleased to say we've now incorporated this feature within this site.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 January 2024
Do you hate OneDrive as much as I do? I doubt it. How about those extra dialog boxes which appear in Excel, Word and PowerPoint whenever you want to open or save a file, called Backstage view? This blog gives some welcome ideas for reducing the intrusion of unsolicited OneDrive dialog boxes into your working life.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 13 December 2023
To reflect our increased costs we are (sorry) increasing our prices for scheduled courses to take effect from now (although if you book any course before Christmas 2023 we will keep to our pre-incresae prices, even if it takes place in 2024).
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 11 December 2023
Although the main innovations in this update are in preview, two of them are turned on now by default: button slicers and reference labels for cards. We also can't resist the temptation to show the new DAX query view, even though it's still very much in preview only.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 11 December 2023
Wise Owl have form for developing games in VBA (remember Flappy Owl, anyone?), but Tom Hedge has taken this one stage further by providing a portal to 3 popular games from a single webpage.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 11 December 2023
If you're struggling to think of a present for the nerd in your life (yourself?), here are 3 ideas to help you: a game, a book about games and a book about murder mystery puzzles.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 November 2023
Microsoft Graph is the (strange and misleading) name for the gateway provided by Microsoft to get at all of the things stored in your 365 cloud (emails, files, users, groups, teams and much more). This tutorial explains what Graph is in more detail, and shows how you can call Graph from within Power Automate flows.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 22 November 2023
How to export a flow from one account and import it into another in Power Automate
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 22 November 2023
After every training course I have to manually delete every flow from every delegate's computer. This takes ages, and stresses me out. There must be a better way ... mustn't there? Maybe I should write a flow to delete all my flows?
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 22 November 2023
The new flow designer in Power Automate is now turned on by default, which isn't necessarily a good thing, as this blog explains.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 22 November 2023
Power Automate now includes Copilot, Microsoft's AI tool to help you generate flows and actions. But is this a good thing?