A Power BI dashboard is usually known as a canvas and it can have only one page to tell a story using visualizations. Since it is restricted to one page, a perfect dashboard contains only the most important fundamentals of the story. The visualizations on the dashboard are referred to as tiles and are pinned to the dashboard by...Read More

Power BI has this excessive functionality where you can go and download preset layouts which make your Power BI reports look more effective. There is a simple trick to create these Power BI layouts. You can create layouts in PowerPoint and then convert them into images. After that, you can insert them into your Power...Read More

A Power BI dashboard is usually known as a canvas and it can have only one page to tell a story using visualizations. Since it is restricted to one page, a perfect dashboard contains only the most important fundamentals of the story. A dashboard is not only attractive but also very interactive and highly customizable. The...Read More

When you are using Power BI for your report analysis, you also need to create a few dashboards that can be really helpful and used often. You can restructure your process and update your reports by creating Power BI templates that give you the ability to upload a number of data sources and automatically rebuild...Read More

Power Query is one of the most powerful features in Power BI and the easiest to learn. It is used for cleaning & transforming the data downloaded from ERP or accounting systems and display it in a report for Power BI to work with. You can learn more tips & tricks in our Power Query...Read More

Normally data is viewed in the Unicode Font for any kind of data. But do you know you can also change this font to a monospaced font? Display A Monospaced Font With Power Query Power Query has a solution for this also. If you want to use another font other than Unicode font then follow...Read More

You can add comments to your code either with single-line comments that start with ‘//’ or multi-line comments that start with ‘/*’ and end with ‘*/’. Adding Comments In M With Power Query Let’s take an example to see how it works. Step 1: Load Data in Power Query Load the data in Power Query first to apply comments in...Read More

The new feature of Power Query allows you to add descriptions to each step in the Applied Steps pane. The step descriptions become comments in the M code in Power Query. If you write M code in the Advanced Editor window, then your comments appear as descriptions in the Applied Steps pane. Comments In Query Steps...Read More

Power Query also allows you to create a list query from a data table available. The column from the given data table can be used to create a list query. This can be explained with the help of an example. Creating A List Query From A Table Column Here, we have a data table containing...Read More

Power Query can create a query parameter and link to the List Query. This is one of the most unknown features of Power Query. Let us study this unique feature along with an example. We have considered the same example of list query explained above. Manage Parameters By Power Query Step 1: Create a List...Read More

One of the important and most needed features of Power Query is Renaming Column Headers. You can rename a column in Power Query very easily. Rename A Column With Power Query Let’s observe the below steps to rename column headers- Step 1: Load Data in Power Query When you load the data in Power Query,...Read More

Merging columns is also a feature of Power Query which is very useful for transforming data. You can use this feature easily by following below steps. Merge Columns With Power Query Step 1: Select the Columns in Power Query for Merging If you have a data table as shown below and you want to merge...Read More

You can even append queries in Power Query. This feature is very useful if you want to combine two data tables together. Let us understand this using an example. As shown in the below picture, you have two sales data for the year 2015 and 2016. We want to combine these two data tables together....Read More

Another important feature of Power Query is Formatting Columns. There are various formatting options available in Power Query for columns like Trim, Clean, Add Prefix, Uppercase etc. In this example, we are going to see how to capitalize each word from the column using the formatting feature. Format Columns By Power Query Step 1: Select...Read More

This is an amazing feature as it allows you to extract the age out of the date provided. Let us elaborate on this feature using an example. Extract Age Using Date With Power Query Here, we have a data table containing employee information which includes their Date of the Birth column. If you want to...Read More

If we have data for products and we want a unique identifier for each product name in the list. But as you can see below each product appears multiple times in the data table. Create Grouped Serial Numbers In Power Query But we want to keep the same serial number for the product each time...Read More

The Power Query M language allows you to create a list containing a sequence of numbers or characters very easily. This is possible when you are defining lists by using expressions in the format- Create A Sequential List With Power Query {lowest_integer..highest_integer} Let us take an example to understand this feature. Step 1: Add Custom...Read More