Find Largest or Smallest Value based on Criteria

If you wanted to find out the biggest or smallest values in a table there’s a couple ways that can be done. Also if you wanted to find the next largest or smallest value, there’ also a function for that. AND...if you had multiple criteria to find big or small values there's recently added functions (Excel 2019 or Office 365) that let you do that. See how all this can be done in the video and there's also a bonus tip on how to create dropdown list.

Power Query Append Queries Not Working - Mismatch Column Names

Appending tables in Power Query is fairly straightforward. The great thing about using Power Query is that the files can all be in one folder and with the magic of the append feature in power query it quick and easy. That is unless the tables in the files are different like having mismatch column names. Lets assume that the column structure is the same; the tables in each file have the same number of columns and its just one sheet per workbook and even that is the same (i.e., Sheet1). However the column names in each workbook is slightly different. For example column one in one file is called "ID" and column one in the second file is called "IDs". The one additional character can make appending the files produce the wrong result. You can edit each file to make sure the column names are the same and that is not too much trouble if it is just a few files. But if it is more than ten files then it becomes a chore, especially if this is something that is done on a recurring basis. There is a workaround, so check out the video to learn how.

Use Power Query to Change Text in Cells or Columns

Change text in Power Query is easy to do. Some transformations include change the case (i.e., upper vs. lower), adding or removing spaces and changing special characters. All this can be done with in the Ribbon tools to the text in the cells. However if you wanted to change all the headers cells to make the text change case or remove characters, that would involved going into the M code. It's not hard, but it's worth it if you have a lot of column headers to change.