In the 31st session of Chandoo.org podcast, let’s disappear.
What is in this session?
Spreadsheets are complex things. They have outputs, calculation tabs, inputs, VBA code, from controls, charts, pivot tables and occasional picture of hello kitty. But when it comes to making a workbook production ready, you may want to hide away few things so it looks tidy.
That is our topic for this podcast session.
In this podcast, you will learn
- Quick announcements first anniversary of our podcast etc.
- Hiding cells,
- Hiding rows & columns
- Hiding chart data points
- On/off effect with form controls, conditional formatting
- Hiding sheets
- Making objects, charts, pictures disappear
- Disabling grid-lines
- Turning off formula bar
- Getting rid of headings
- Hiding things in print
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Links & Resources mentioned in this podcast
Hiding cell content
- How to hide cell contents using custom cell formatting
- Conditional hiding examples
- Introduction to custom cell formatting
Hiding chart data points / series
Hiding objects, shapes & charts
Hiding things in Print
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What is your favorite Excel magic trick?
My favorite tricks are using formulas + form controls to make charts dynamic, using conditional formatting, using VBA to animate stuff.
What about you? What magic you do to impress your boss & colleagues? Please share your tips & ideas in the comments section.
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2 Responses to “Top 10 Power BI Interview Questions & Answers”
Hello...
In Power BI I have data that includes months by name only (e.g. May, April, December...)
I need to build charts etc. but i need the months to go chronologically... not alphabetically... I cannot seem to find the fix to this.... once again, my data does NOT have an actual date attached to it (like 02/01/2023)....only month names... can i use a helper table wher i id the month names as numbers 1 thru 12? and if so, how do i manage this to work for me ?
Thank you.
~Keith
You need to setup an extra table to map each month name to a running number. A simple 12 row table like
Jan 1
Feb 2
Mar 3
..
Dec 12
Then create a relationship between this month table and your month column
Now, go to "table view" in Power BI and set the sort by column to month number for the month name column on this new table.
Finally, use the new table's month name whenever you need to refer to the month name in the visuals.
They will be chronologically arranged.