On the final Friday of each month, we set an Excel / Power Pivot / Power Query / Power BI problem for you to puzzle over for the weekend. On the Monday, we publish a solution. If you think there is an alternative answer, feel free to email us. We’ll feel free to ignore you. The challenge this month was to randomly select winners from a list without duplicates. Easy, yes?

On the final Friday of each month, we are going to set an Excel / Power BI challenge for you to puzzle over so that you can get your “Excel fix”. Challenge your office colleagues to see who can solve the puzzle quickest. There are no prizes at this stage: you are playing for bragging rights only!

Welcome back to this week’s edition of the Power BI blog series. This week, we create a hierarchy for Calendar1.

Welcome to our Power Query blog. This week, I insert parameters from Excel cells into my query.

In our long-established Power Pivot Principles articles, we continue our series on the A to Z of Data Analysis eXpression (DAX) functions. This week, we look at CLOSINGBALANCEMONTH.

Welcome back to our regular A to Z of Excel Functions blog. Today we look at the MAXIFS function.

Welcome back to our Charts and Dashboards blog series. This week, I save a customised chart to use again.

Welcome back to this week’s edition of the Power BI blog series. This week, we look at Hybrid Tables, including an enhancement to incremental refresh for Power BI Premium.

Welcome to our Power Query blog. This week, I complete the creation of the parameters from Excel cells.

In our long-established Power Pivot Principles articles, we continue our series on the A to Z of Data Analysis eXpression (DAX) functions. This week, we look at CHISQ.INV.RT function.