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Filter even or odd rows in Excel
This morning I pasted a list of values into Excel in which the pattern consisted of a “good value” followed by that same value with a minor adjustment. The second, near-duplicate value wasn’t useful to...
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Capitalize whole words or first letters of each word in Excel cells
Since Excel doesn’t have the same set of robust text transformation tools as Word, we need creative ways to get the same effects sometimes. When it comes to auto-capitalizing whole words or first...
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Alertus integration in SharePoint via Microsoft Flow
I’m by no means an HTTP request expert, but the requirement of being able to integrate business applications is common and, in this case, important. I took some time to figure out how we could...
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Show/hide fields conditionally in PowerApps forms based on dropdown selection
I’m working on digitizing a form to improve the user experience and our data collection and availability efforts. I decided to do this one in PowerApps as we begin to pivot organizationally toward the...
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Add or subtract hours from date/time values in Power BI using M formula in...
Previously, I shared how to transform date/time values in Power BI using DAX. But I’m working on building more using M formulas as those are less resource-intensive and improve report performance. The...
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GCC solution: “Your org doesn’t allow Microsoft Flow. You’ll need to use your...
I’m currently on an adventure into my first GCC (government) tenant. When I went to https://flow.microsoft.com in this new GCC tenant, I got the following error: “That didn’t work. Your org doesn’t...
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Possible solution: “Sorry, something went wrong. The file is locked for...
I recently ran into the following error when someone tried to edit a shared Excel file from OneDrive (we’re running SharePoint Server 2016). “Sorry, something went wrong. The file {address} is locked...
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How to create a PTO/vacation request form and approval process in SharePoint
I was recently asked to develop a PTO request form that accomplished the following: Allowed users to submit PTO, Remote work, Training, and Other requests Auto-lookup of the employee’s manager Send...
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Connect a Google Sheet spreadsheet to Power BI as a data source
I recently connected Power BI directly to a spreadsheet in Google’s Excel alternative, Google Sheets. It’s important to connect to data without moving it when we can. The less we have to...
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New book! MS-101 Exam Study Guide Announcement
Earlier this year, in January 2019, I wrote an MS-100 and MS-101 exams study guide blog post linking to resources to help people prep for both exams. MS-101 in particular seemed to have less available...
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Below you’ll find all exam areas and objectives with related documentation to help you prepare for the exam. Most of the references below are summarized in my exam prep book. Implement modern device...
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Microsoft Delve blogs to be retired; Existing Delve blogs to be deleted in 2020
Thanks to a tweet by Tim Milan of Omaha, I heard today that Microsoft Delve blogs are to be deleted in a few months. Ding Dong #Microsoft Delve is Dead! •December 18th, 2019, tenants will not have the...
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Pass URL parameter to SharePoint new form (NewForm.aspx) to auto-populate a...
I recently received a request to create an education listing of courses where a user could “Register” easily for upcoming opportunities. This required creating two lists: one for courses and another...
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Create a direct link/URL to version history for a SharePoint list item or file
Imagine getting an email with a direct link to review the version history of an item or file. Or being able to have a single click from a list view to an item’s version history without going through...
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Introducing the “File Upload” question type for Microsoft Forms
I received a message yesterday in my message center announcing “File Upload” as a new question type coming to Microsoft Forms soon. It’s currently listed as “In development” to be released this month....
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Restrict who can install on-premises data gateways for the Power Platform
Data gateways allow users to connect online services, such as Power BI service, Power Automate, and Power Apps to on-prem data sources such as SQL databases, SharePoint server lists and libraries, and...
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On-premises data gateway for Power BI, Power Automate (Flow), and Power Apps
On-premises data gateways allow users to connect online services like Power BI service, Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow), and Power Apps to their on-premises data sources such as SharePoint...
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Workaround: Export to Excel not working in Safari, Chrome, or other non-IE...
The problem If you’re using SharePoint online (O365) you won’t run into this issue. But for those of you, like me, who are still on SharePoint 2013 or 2016 you may have tried to use “Export to Excel”...
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Remove background from images using Office apps
Most of us have Office apps installed on our machine. But not everybody has, or can afford, Photoshop. Luckily, Office apps (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Outlook) have built-in image editing features...
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Reorder and organize SharePoint tasks and timelines
The Tasks app (or Task list) in SharePoint has many features to help your team communicate and stay on track. You can group tasks into buckets by designating some tasks as subtasks to others. You can...
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