How to… Consolidate Quarterly or Monthly Data Using Power Query
Do you get regular data files that you need to consolidate/compile together for a report or dashboard? This method will help you keep your reporting files lightweight and portable, while making updating their data as easy as pressing Refresh. The basics can be done in five easy steps. For our…
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Lightweight DND 5th Edition Item Tracker (Excel)
Taking inspiration from this old blog post from Rotten Pulp, here’s an (optional) item tracker that you can use to keep a more immersive record of what your character has equipped and where. The tool itself covers most of the rules you’ll need to be aware of for this new…
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Lucy in the sky with asteroids — Miscellaneous Details
Well done to the data team at The Economist, having to visualise a 12-year journey of a space probe as it makes a flying visit to eight different asteroids. They’ve made a very complicated journey look quite straightforward and elegant. A probe intended to study the Trojan asteroids takes off…
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Lightweight Excel DND Dice Roller
To compliment my lightweight offline Excel DND character sheet, I’ve created a dice roller to be used when playing the game. It can be used completely offline, and should run on basically all versions of Excel (provided macros can be enabled). Please feel free to use this and share as…
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Micro How to… Format Data as a Table
How Step 1. Highlight the data table Step 2. On the Ribbon, open the Insert tab, and select ‘Table’ (Shortcut CTRL + T). Step 3. Hit Ok on the Create Table dialogue box. You should now have a table that looks like the following: Why should you format data as…
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