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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

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

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

The 5 worst things about Power Automate

Posted by Andy Brown on 29 October 2022

To try to show what developing Power Automate flows is like, we've created two blogs: one listing out its 5 best features, and one listing its 5 worst ones. This is the pessimistic one!

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Power Automate > General

Power BI Desktop Update - October 2022

Posted by Andy Brown on 27 October 2022

Another small update, allowing you to reverse the stack order of column charts and edit DAX formulae in model view, but not much else.

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Power BI > Updates

Updates to Power BI Desktop for September 2022

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 September 2022

You can now format reports differently for mobile view and display X axis labe`s hierarchically by default. One other tiny change is that default column titles in tables now include the summarisation method used.

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Power BI > Updates

A representative example of a Power Automate flow

Posted by Andy Brown on 27 September 2022

This blog shows how you can create a flow in Power Automate to send yourself a notification whenever someone makes a change to a file in a given OneDrive folder (the blog is designed to give you a good overview of what working with Power Automate is like).

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Power Automate > Creating flows

A minimal Power BI update for August 2022

Posted by Andy Brown on 01 September 2022

There's a tiny change to conditional formatting of data labels this month, but that's about it!

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Power BI > Updates

Power BI July 2022 Update - Error Bars

Posted by Andy Brown on 25 July 2022

You can now display error bars in charts, as well as formatting them and adding error labels.

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Power BI > Updates

Comparing Power Automate Desktop and Power Automate

Posted by Andy Brown on 22 June 2022

It's a tad confusing having two software applications from Microsoft with such similar names, particularly when they do such different things! This blog tries to clear up the confusion.

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Power Automate Desktop > General Power Automate > General

Our new Power Automate courses

Posted by Andy Brown on 22 June 2022

This blog will be updated in the next few days.

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Power Automate > General

Ideas for future Power BI / Tableau comparisons

Posted by Andy Brown on 20 June 2022

Following last month's high-level comparison between Power BI and Tableau, what aspect of these two popular BI software tools would you like us to focus on next?

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Power BI > General

Changes and new features for our Power Apps course

Posted by Andy Brown on 20 June 2022

Much has changed in the 2 years since we first launched our Power Apps course - this blog is intended to give previous course delegates a chance to catch up on anything you might have missed!

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Power Apps > General

Changes in the June 2022 Update of Power BI

Posted by Andy Brown on 20 June 2022

This month sees a smattering of new features, including nicer-looking tables, a new data hub and story-telling in PowerPoint.

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Power BI > Updates

A high-level comparison between Power BI and Tableau

Posted by Andy Brown on 07 June 2022

Power BI and Tableau are the two leading BI tools, but how do they compare? We've teamed up with Steve Adams of Viz DJ to find out!

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Power BI > General

Changes for the May 2022 Power BI Desktop update

Posted by Andy Brown on 30 May 2022

Small improvements this month, but welcome ones - particularly the ability to zoom in and out, and to select data points in (some) charts using a selection rectangle.

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Power BI > Updates

Extracting external links from websites using Power BI

Posted by Andy Brown on 20 April 2022

Did you know that you could use Power BI as a tool to scrape websites, using the Html.Table M function? We didn't either until now!

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Power BI > Query editor

Power BI Desktop Update - April 2022

Posted by Andy Brown on 20 April 2022

A small update this month, with the main change being the addition of a few formatting options for matrices and chart legends.

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Power BI > Updates

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From:	duggie
When:	23 Jun 18 at 07:59

Hi Andy,

I'm a little confused about Power BI. Looking at your videos, it seems Power BI is a collective term for PowerPivot, Power Query, Power Map, etc.

However, googling Power BI, I see this, where the video shows a completely independent tool aimed at creating dashboards and reports, so can you please clarify what is Power BI? Thanks.

From:	Andy B
When:	23 Jun 18 at 16:14

Microsoft haven't helped with their naming convention! They keep changing what Power BI refers to. Here's where we're at now ...

Power BI is a standalone desktop product, previously known as Power BI Desktop. You can use these to create reports, and publish them to the web.

PowerPivot runs within Excel, and allows you to link different data sources together to create a data model, and use this as a basis for pivot tables. PowerPivot used to be one of the Microsoft Power BI tools, but they seem to have quietly dropped this title.

So when Microsoft refer to Power BI, they now refer to creating reports in the standalone Power BI application, perhaps using Power BI Pro, and publishing these to the Internet.

Hope that's clear ... !

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