This is a step-by-step description of how to combine multiple tables from one webpage into one table with categories as output. You can also apply this technique to combine tables from (…) Read more
Posts in Category ‘Power Query’
List.SelectPositions in Power BI and Power Query
With this new custom function “List.SelectPositions” you can easily select items from a list by just passing a list of their positions within it as the parameter. What it does Say (…) Read more
Table.Group: Exploring the 5th element in Power BI and Power Query
In this post I’ll show you the magic stuff you can do with the 5th parameter (the optional comparer function) of the Table.Group M-function in Power BI and Power Query: Table.Group parameters (…) Read more
Remove repeating characters from a string in Power BI and Power Query
Repeating spaces often cause problems when cleaning up your data. My new function “Text.RemoveRepeatingCharacters” can come to the rescue here. Imagine you have a table like this: Challenge To further work with this (…) Read more
Date.DatesBetween to retrieve dates between 2 dates in Power BI and Power Query
Today I’m sharing a handy function with you that allows you to retrieve all or just a couple of dates between 2 given dates: Date.DatesBetween. Usage This function takes 3 (…) Read more
Right Aligning Text in Power BI: Format Improvements for Easy Profit&Loss Reports
Edit 14-Dec-2017: Now that we can right-align text measures in PowerBI, a SWITCH-measure like here: http://www.thebiccountant.com/2017/04/24/kpis-in-easy-profit-and-loss-for-powerbi/#comment-719 is the best alternative in my eyes. No need to read on 🙂 As (…) Read more