Usually when you're doing lookups in Excel, it brings back the first value that matches. But what if you want the last value and did not want to sort the table to do that? You can actually perform this type of lookup quite easily in Office 365 version of Excel with the XLOOKUP function. But what if you don't have O365? Well you're not stuck, cause you can combine some functions (INDEX, LARGE, IF and ROW) to do the same thing. I'll show examples of both and offer a bonus on how to create a drop down list near the end.
Monday, March 1, 2021
Monday, February 22, 2021
Use the Power Query Data Type Customization
In the Microsoft Office subscription or Microsoft 365 version of Excel there's data types that let you get a lot more information from just one value in a cell. There is a stock data type that lets you view the latest information of that public company like the stock price or shares outstanding; and that is just based on the name of the company in one cell.
Now you can actually create you own custom data type courtesy of Power Query. Think of it as a small table or list that you can expand from just one cell in your worksheet. You can have any time of structured table of related information and it all gets encapsulations in one column of multiple row cells. See the video to learn how this can be done.
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Create a Clickable Image Map in SharePoint
In SharePoint classic pages, you were able to have a clickable image map similar to an ordinary web page. However with SharePoint modern pages, Microsoft seemed to have taken that ability away. There is actually a workaround for this using another popular Microsoft product - PowerPoint. You can create the hotspots with multiple links for each part of an image, upload this using the file viewer web part and bam(!) you have a pseudo image map along with the ability to mouseover and see the link without writing html.
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