Turn a Picture into Puzzle Pieces in PowerPoint

If you want to create a puzzle piece image out of an existing image, you'd think it was something that could only be done in Photoshop or pay someone to do. With most versions of PowerPoint, this can be done with just a few steps. You can event animate the pieces with the morph command (but this would take Microsoft 365 subscription or PPT 2019). Later on in this video I'll show the animation effect using that morph feature. If you don't have the current versions of PPT, you can do this with the animations command, but it'll just take more work (that won't be covered in this video, but subscribe and check out my other animations vid on https://www.youtube.com/doughexcel/?s...). As a bonus near the end of the vid, making an image out of other shapes will be covered so check it out.

Use Power Query to Create a Dynamic Calendar Table

When you're creating relationships between tables that have dates, it often useful to have a separate calendar table that references all the dates for the year or years that you need. It'll also be nice if it has extra fields or columns that give just the year, month or day name. You can often do this manually in Excel with a few functions, but if you wanted to make it auto-magically update based on your given start and end date, Power Query makes it much easier to do once you set it up.

Perform Quick Pareto Analysis in Excel

A Pareto analysis tries to find out what variable are responsible for the bulk of the outcomes. It's referred to as a Pareto Principle or the 80/20 rule. The concept can be expressed with the saying that 80 percent of the wealth is owned or created by 20 percent of the population. Though in real life data may not fit tightly in the 20 percent, the idea of Pareto is that a small number of variables have a disproportionate ownership or cause of an outcome. This video show how to quickly find out from your data what variables are responsible for the "80%" in your data using Excel.