The recent announcements about Office 365 being renamed caused a little commotion, so I thought I would try and upset you all a little more…

You cannot take a step outside your front door before the world reminds you of the COVID-19 pandemic. As healthcare providers and local governments work to slow the spread of the virus and ultimately save lives, it’s critical that these organisations are equipped with accurate information in a timely manner. To help these organisations and individuals stay informed, several of Microsoft’s Power BI partners have created template apps tracking the COVID-19 pandemic, e.g.

When you connect to a Power BI dataset from Excel, that dataset's Sensitivity label will be inherited and applied to the Excel file.

Earlier this week it was announced that Microsoft is introducing two new ways to access Power BI data from within Excel.

You may have noticed the usual monthly Power BI Desktop updates have come out a little late. Well, they have finally arrived!

Microsoft has announced a delay in all reports in Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service being automatically migrated to the modern filter experience.

Whilst we wait for the latest updates to be announced, we are aware that there is now the ability in Power BI to copy a visual as an image to your clipboard. With just one click, you can easily share a captured image of a dashboard tile or a report visual, e.g.

We have mentioned Office Scripts previously, which is a new feature for Excel on the web. However, we thought we would revisit this as it is now available for users in what Microsoft calls “country / region specific data centres”, also known as “Go Local data centres”. This means that although a Preview rolled out in January, certain territories (e.g. Australia, Canada, New Zealand) could not access it – well now you can!

The Microsoft Visio Data Visualizer add-in for Excel is a new way to create data-driven high-quality Visio flowcharts, cross-functional flowcharts and organisation(al) charts – all the shapes, connections and data linking – directly in Excel.

Office 365 is to be renamed Microsoft 365...