In the 11th session of Chandoo.org podcast, lets puts on a magic show for your boss

What is in this session?
We all want to impress our bosses, create awesome experiences for our users and become enviable in workplace with our Excel skills. In this session, lets explore 5 very powerful, magical features of Excel that can help you create that jaw-dropping effect.
In this podcast, you will learn,
- Announcements
- Why magic
- 5 Excel Magic Tricks
- 1: Conditional formatting
- 2: Form controls + Charts
- 3: Pivot tables + Slicers
- 4: Macros + Automation
- 5: Using right feature @ right time
- How to learn these magic tricks
- Conclusions
Go ahead and listen to the show
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Links & Resources mentioned in this session:
Conditional Formatting
- Basics of conditional formatting
- Magical uses – example 1, example 2 & more
Form controls + Charts
- Introduction to form controls (or listen to the podcast)
- Magical uses – example 1, example 2 & more
Pivot Tables + Slicers
Macros & VBA
- Introduction to VBA
- Magical uses – example 1, example 2 & more
Transcript of this session:
Download this podcast transcript [PDF].
What are your favorite Excel magic tricks?
My favorites are conditional formatting, slicers, form controls + charts in that order.
What about you? What features of Excel are most impressive and mesmerizing? Please share your thoughts using comments.


















6 Responses to “Nest Egg Calculator using Power BI”
Wow! What a Powerful article!
Hello Chandoo Sir
your file does not work with Excel 2016.
how can I try my hands on this powerful nest egg file ?
thanks
Ravi Santwani
@Ravi... this is a Power BI workbook. You need Power BI Desktop to view it. See the below tutorial to understand what Power BI is:
https://chandoo.org/wp/introduction-to-power-bi/
As always, superb article Chandoo... 🙂
Just one minor issue:
While following your steps and replicating this calculator in PowerBI, I found that the Growth Pct Parameters should be set as "Decimal number" not "Whole Number"
OR
we have to make corresponding adjustments in the Forecast formulas (i.e. divide by 100) to get accurate results.
You are right. I used whole number but modified the auto created harvester measure with /100 at end. Sorry I did not mention it in the tutorial.
Instead of
[Growth Pct 1 Value]/12
the monthly rate has to be
(1+[Growth Pct 1 Value])^(1/12)-1
It's a slight difference but in 30 years the future value will be $100k less.