Perform a Two Way, Three Way or N Way Lookup with Power Query

If you're doing lookups, you might use the different lookup functions like LOOKUP, VLOOKUP or INDEX / MATCH. To add another option into the mix, you can also do lookups with Power Query. One benefit is that if you perform two way (three way or more), writing the formulas with the lookup functions get a bit complex. The other benefit is that Power Query can handle larger tables and also appear more dynamic (i.e., just clicking refresh to get updated data). To see how it could be done, check out the video.

Case Insensitive Lookup with Power Query

If you are trying to do a case insensitive keyword lookup for a table of records, you could just use the filtering capabilities in the Table feature. But if you want to make it more easy for users, maybe having them enter a word in a cell and than refreshing a table would be better. One solution would be to use Power Query!

Include Filtered Items in Totals for Pivot Table

https://youtu.be/M5-l-__gepA

Pivot tables are great analysis tools, but sometimes (or often) Microsoft adds a feature and doesn't make it obvious on how to use it. This is one of them. When you have a Pivot table and decided to use the Top 10, Top 5 or Top whatever option to filter your table, it will show the total and subtotal respective to that smaller Top X filter. But what if you still wanted to see how your variables place in the whole data set irrespective of the filter? There is that option to see it as the "Include Filtered Items in Totals" command, but it may be greyed out. See the video to learn about how to fix this.