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How to add sparklines to Excel cells to show trends (and options for formatting)

Posted by Andy Brown on 27 February 2023

Learn how to get individual Excel cells to contain sparklines to show trends, how to display column charts or win/loss charts instead, how to play about with grouped charts, how to change sparkline formatting and how to customise sparkline axes.

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Excel > Charts

A new feature to split your Edge browser screen

Posted by Andy Brown on 27 February 2023

If you turn on this experimental feature in Edge you can show two webpages side by side (you can even choose what proportion of the screen each side occupies).

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Hardware/software > Windows

A warm welcome to Simone, our first ever marketing manager

Posted by Andy Brown on 01 February 2023

We're delighted to welcome Simone Tyler-Gould as our new part-time marketing manager!

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Miscellaneous > The future

The new Excel image function shows an image in a cell - and is fun to play with!

Posted by Andy Brown on 01 February 2023

You've always been able to add images within worksheets, but now for the first time you can add them within cells - which is strangely satisfying!

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Excel > Excel functions

A new function key for Excel (and some good older ones)

Posted by Andy Brown on 01 February 2023

Microsoft have sneaked in a new short-cut key to invoke the Power Query Editor, but in the course of researching this we also unearthed 4 other key combinations which we suspect even diehard Excel users may not know about.

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Excel > General

Which dialects of SQL should Wise Owl teach next?

Posted by Andy Brown on 01 February 2023

Although we currently just train in T-SQL for SQL Server, there are many other dialects of this database language: such as MySql and PL/SQL, for example. Which ones would you like Wise Owl to run courses in?

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SQL > General

You can now get paper AND online manuals for Wise Owl courses

Posted by Andy Brown on 31 January 2023

It's taken a long time, but you can now finally get a downloadable PDF file of your Wise Owl course manual, to go with the paper copy.

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Hardware/software > General IT

Finding out which Power BI tables and columns aren't being used

Posted by Sam Lowrie on 30 January 2023

How to use Radacad's clean-up tool to see which of the columns and tables in your Power BI data model you're not using.

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Power BI > Data sources

A hidden update? Resetting visual formatting

Posted by Andy Brown on 30 January 2023

Can you remove all of the formatting that you've applied to a visual? Apparently you can, although this new feature was never announced in an update.

Tags:
Power BI > Updates

Changes in the Power BI Desktop December 2022 update

Posted by Andy Brown on 30 January 2023

This update make slicer formatting much more consistent (a welcome change), and introduces 3 fairly complex new DAX functions (OFFSET, INDEX and WINDOW).

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Power BI > Updates

The ultimate Christmas gift for the geek in your life

Posted by Andy Brown on 06 December 2022

The Orb X gaming chair comes with a leather chair, support for 3 screens, surround sound and much more besides, and will be the perfect Christmas gift for the geek in your life when it becomes available for purchase.

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Hardware/software > Gaming

We've tweaked the contents of our Power BI Data course

Posted by Andy Brown on 05 December 2022

We've added sections on Power Apps and Power Automate to our two-day Advanced Power BI (Data) course, and downgraded 3 topics to be covered only if time allows to make room for these.

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Power BI > Query editor

Including paginated report visuals in a Power BI Desktop report

Posted by Andy Brown on 05 December 2022

Not sure whether to choose Report Builder paginated reports for printing or Power BI interactive ones for showing on screen? Now you don't have to choose, as this blog explains.

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Power BI > Visualisations

New features in the Power BI November 2022 update

Posted by Andy Brown on 05 December 2022

This update includes the roll-out of field parameters, separate Y axes for small multiples and new DAX debugging functions - and a new colour for Power BI!

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Power BI > Updates

An update on the progress of our PyQt5 editor

Posted by Andy Brown on 02 December 2022

What happened to our PyQt5 editor? Well - not much, sadly. We've given up on this approach now and are reverting to a website solution - this blog explains why.

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Hardware/software > General IT

Presenting Power BI reports at the APSE annual Performance Networks seminar

Posted by Andy Brown on 02 December 2022

Wise Owl (and Sam specifically) presented a sample Power BI report that we had created to APSE in Blackpool - take your place in the audience!

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Miscellaneous > Random musings

How you can use Words.Net from Aspose to manipulate MS Word documents in C#

Posted by Andy Brown on 02 December 2022

Words.Net is a utility which allows you to build and edit Microsoft Word documents in C# rather than VBA. Should you adopt it? Read this review to find out!

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Hardware/software > General IT

Analysing our survey results in Microsoft Forms

Posted by Andy Brown on 02 December 2022

Last month we sent out a survey - here are the results, showing a) how Microsoft Forms allows you to report on survey data and b) what people think of us!

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Hardware/software > Microsoft 365

Introducing two new Wise Owl courses on Office Scripts

Posted by Andy Brown on 30 November 2022

This blog gives the background to Microsoft's decision to roll out Office Scripts, and explains why you might want to learn how to automate Excel using scripts, rather than VBA (and how you'd then go about doing this).

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Office Scripts > General

The 5 best things about Power Automate

Posted by Andy Brown on 29 October 2022

A separate blog lists the 5 worst things about Power Automate; this more positive blog lists its 5 best features!

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Power Automate > General

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Wise Owl Blogs - Home (page 9 of 24)

How to add sparklines to Excel cells to show trends (and options for formatting)

A new feature to split your Edge browser screen

A warm welcome to Simone, our first ever marketing manager

The new Excel image function shows an image in a cell - and is fun to play with!

A new function key for Excel (and some good older ones)

Which dialects of SQL should Wise Owl teach next?

You can now get paper AND online manuals for Wise Owl courses

Finding out which Power BI tables and columns aren't being used

A hidden update? Resetting visual formatting

Changes in the Power BI Desktop December 2022 update

The ultimate Christmas gift for the geek in your life

We've tweaked the contents of our Power BI Data course

Including paginated report visuals in a Power BI Desktop report

New features in the Power BI November 2022 update

An update on the progress of our PyQt5 editor

Presenting Power BI reports at the APSE annual Performance Networks seminar

How you can use Words.Net from Aspose to manipulate MS Word documents in C#

Analysing our survey results in Microsoft Forms

Introducing two new Wise Owl courses on Office Scripts

The 5 best things about Power Automate

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