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Issue: Excel Forecasting doesn't work (or i can't get it too) when using a Cube that has a Date Column

September 6, 2016, 9:36 pm
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I have a cube that has a TotalInvoice (money) field and a Date Field.

No matter what I do

1. Use the Month Name as the "time"

2. Use the Month ordinal as the "time 1-12

3. Use the Actual values which would be like 1/1/2014 then 2/1/2014, where there are only 12 records a year, and they are all 1 month apart.

if I try to select the date range and total column and do a forecast it says.. NOPE there is a problem with the time range, they don't have a perfect enough gap bla bla.. as if they dates don't make sense.

IF however, I take those same highlighted columns, copy them, paste them INTO anywhere else on the page, or another sheet, and set them to be "pasted as values only"... then forecast DOES work on those...

I don't get why using a Power Pivot / Range selected values.. doesn't work.

OHHHH and at one point, I had the date and time together.. and the times were all 12:00:00 and copying and pasting with the TIME value... didn't work with forecasting, soon as I removed the time (even after pasting) it worked.

I don't know why it won't work, but there is no way I can tell people to copy and paste the values into another sheet just to do forecasting..

Any thoughts?

Thanks!!

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list of words relating to font and font size

September 7, 2016, 2:32 am
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Hi all,

In A1 I have text that consists of words which all are separated by a space (and nothing else).

Some words are in font Arial 9, others in Arial 12 (no other fonts or font sizes).

Form A5 down I need all Ariel 12 words only, and from B5 down I need all Ariel 9 words only.

Your assistance will be appreciated very much.

Jack Sons

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Excel 2010: How to install OLAP Pivottable

September 1, 2016, 12:27 am
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Dear All,

   I have currently the version non olap of pivot table with excel 2010.

   How can i deploy this version?

Thank you.

 

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How to fill document information panel fields from cell values

September 7, 2016, 3:57 am
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Hello,

I have the demand to fill the DIP fields from the cell values.

The document would be created from a custom content type template in SharePoint Online.

The solution shouldn't involve VBA to let the users use Excel Online to fill the workbook.

Is there any possibility to achieve this?

Google didn't come up with ideas.... :-(

Thank you.

Es gibt immer einen Weg...

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Morphing issue with multiple pivot charts & Powerpivot

June 13, 2014, 3:55 pm
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Hi there,

I have a spreadsheet which contains multiple pivot charts displaying data from the same table & connection. I'm using PowerPivot.

The spreadsheet is meant to be a dashboard and each pivot chart displays the data using a different approach (e.g., I have one for median, one for 75th percentile, one for histogram, one for raw count by date, etc..).

After adding a couple of tables and spending quite some time configuring design and selecting the right fields for each one, at some point, midway through configuring a new chart, the act of adding a new field or changing the background color seems to link the current chart to another one in the worksheet. The new chart simply morphs into the other existing one. Design, fields and data from the current chart are gone and it seems as if new and old charts are both references to the same chart. Any change I make to the old chart reflects on the new one, and vice-versa. This has happened quite a few times, and I could not identify a patterns of actions that takes to this issue. The only way out is to remove the chart and re-add it, performing tasks in a different order.

As my dashboard gets more complex, I cannot keep relying on trial and error to get this working.

Any suggestions on what might be causing this?

Tks,

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Power pivot - Fields in pivot charts change to the fields in another chart

August 7, 2014, 9:14 am
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Hi!

I have a problem with pivot charts and power pivot.

I have a few tables in the data model and many pivot charts. 

Sometimes when I format the style of a pivot chart or use the slicer for it, all the fields change to fields in one particular pivot chart from another table. Sometimes Excel crashes after the changes. There is no relationship between the tables.

Has anyone experienced this? What can I do to stop it? 

Thank you very much.


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Problems with Pivot Cache handling since latest Excel 2016 build

September 7, 2016, 10:46 am
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Hi, I've been running a macro that creates a Pivot Cache for a pre-existing Pivot Table and is then assigned to 2 other pre-existing Pivot Tables. This macro was working flawlessly but a recent Excel 2016 company-wide update to the latest build I can create the Pivot Cache right away, but assigning it to the other 2 Pivot Tables is taking FOREVER (over 30 minutes for 500.000 rows and 40 columns).

A process that used to go through 20 files in 15 minutes now takes more than 30 minutes for 1 file.

The delay is appearing in the following code line:

With pvt_current
                        .CacheIndex = pvt_first.CacheIndex

Excel gets stuck around half-way through the Calculating Pivot Report

My specs are i7, 12GB RAM, 250GB SSD, Windows 10 and Excel 2016 16.0.6965.2053

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Powerview dose not show up in ribbon even though checked in add-ins

July 17, 2016, 10:01 am
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I have Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 as required.

Already checked off in COM Addins and should be visible (PowerPivot is but not Powerview even though both are checked).

I already went into ADD REMOVE programs in Control panel and clicked on Repair Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 and after doing so rebooted and still nothing.

I tried to uncheck the add ins and then check them again and then exit excel and go back in and check boxes again and still nothing showing up in EXCEL Ribbon for Power View but again Power Pivot does show up.


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Need some help with a simple task...

September 7, 2016, 12:48 pm
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I have a workbook with a column (A) that states three different values (Team A, Team B, Team C). I want to have the rows associated with each team move to unique worksheets (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie).

I have tried to set up a vlookup formula, but it seems to fail every time I try.

Anyone have a solution?

David

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Color of Data in 3D Map

September 7, 2016, 2:04 pm
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Hello, 

I have a 3D Maps file that represents data using the Clustered Column graph type. Currently, data in each column all needs to be represented by the same color (data in column 1 all needs to be blue, data in column 2 is all yellow etc. ) I am wondering if there is a way to change the color of the data along the same column. Ideally I would be able to apply a conditional formatting that would update the color along the column as it relates to a set of data (similar to how it would in a single column in standard excel). 

Does anyone know of a way to manipulate color at all within 3D Map?

Thanks!

Cody 


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Missing the "Apply Rule To:" option in "Edit Formatting Rule" of Conditional Formatting

November 24, 2015, 11:11 am
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I am using Excel 2010 and I am 99% sure that when I go to Conditional Formatting -->  Manage Rules ---> Edit Rule there should be an"Apply Rule To:" option at the top, but it is missing for me.  The only options that show are"Select a Rule Type:" and"Edit the Rule Description." 

I am stumped and have no idea how to fix this; I need to change what my conditional formatting rules apply to in a Pivot Table so that even when new records are added, the conditional formatting still applies, but the only thing I can apply the rules to (as is) is a range of specific cells.

Anyone able to help? 

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How to link result from an iqy to powerpivot

September 4, 2016, 9:12 pm
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I can open web query (iqy) in excel and create pivot table, but I have error (The selected range is invalid. Select a valid range. A table cannot overlap a range that contains a PivotTable report, query results, protected cells or another table.) linking the result to powerpivot.

I'm using Excel 2010 version, would appreciate for suggestion to fix.

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Excel 2016 Power Query (aka "Get & Transform") broken (Active Content warning in all dialogs)

September 7, 2016, 3:35 pm
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We have several machines with Windows 10 (1607) 64bit and Office Pro Plus 64bit (16.0.4432.1000).
(Also there is Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 and SQL Server 2016 Management Studio 13.0.15700.28 installed on all the machines)

Symptom on all of these machines: Before, Power Query was running fine.

But now every dialog that is part of Power Query (aka "Get & Transform") includes a little warning ribbon on top,
saying "To help protect security, your web browser has restricted this file from showing active content that could access your computer"

(Unfortunately we did not catch what triggered the defect)

We are pretty sure no one changed a domain policy, no one changed knowingly anything in Trust center, and in IE 11 we do not see anything that should not be there...

I'm not sure if this is a clue, but when loading the first dialog the status bar says "loading .NET framework"

We do have .NET 4.5 ... 4.6, 4.6.1 and 4.6.2 installed (as part of our Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 installation)

If anyone has a clue whats going on ,what could be missing, if this is a faulty Office update... ???

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Excel locking up and Ribbon icons disappearing.

September 8, 2016, 2:43 am
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Hi, I am having an issue on multiple machine where Excel locking up on Windows 10 1511 with Excel 2016. The Rippon is present but icons for disappeared. Sometimes we are able to click save. When closing excel and reopening all is fine and then out of the blue a couple of hours later the problem will come back.

The issue happens with multiple spreadsheets. Some spreadsheet have 20 rows with very basic formulas if any. See screenshot of the problem. Does anybody have any ideas or has the same problem.

Daniel Wingfield

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Power Pivot Issue

September 8, 2016, 6:06 am
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I am having an issue with Power Pivot where I continue to receive a message about an issue with the Data Model and it not allowing access to the workbook. I am using Excel 2016 Professional Plus. This issue is a reoccurring one and has happened to several workbooks. 

Any ideas on what is causing this to happen? 

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How to change connection string for an Excel File Data Connection?

August 31, 2016, 12:48 am
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I've been needing to use and configure an Excel Workbook to retrieve data from another workbook (which is uploaded to a Document Library in SharePoint) and upload it to SharePoint 2013. So far, I am successful in retrieving and refreshing the data via the desktop application (Excel 2010) but I am having trouble when it is uploaded to SharePoint. I am receiving the error that "Sheet1$ does not exist".

Based on my troubleshooting, I traced it back to this:

It seems that what happens is, everytime I try to refresh the data from SharePoint, it 'creates' a temporary file as specified there in the connection string above instead of using the original Excel file (which is also uploaded into SharePoint). I tried accessing the file but it seemed to be corrupted or locked by some service / user. I tried manually changing the data source URL but whenever I save the properties, it reverts back and configures a new data source URL automatically. Granted, ANY CHANGE that I make to the connection string is ignored.

Why can't I change it? Is there any way to manually specify my own connection string? Or is Excel really just configured to auto-populate the connection string for an Excel file type of connection?

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How do I get rid of the people graph, there is no X?

April 25, 2014, 11:15 am
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I'm in Excel 2013 and thought I check out what this people graph does. And now I can't get rid of it. Clicking it again thinking the button worked like a show\hide option just creates another graph window. Why after 20 some years of GUI development have apps become so unintuitive.

You know what happens if you insert a chart, you get a nice big obvious in the top right corner.

If you go to power map and add a legend, that's right, you get an X in the top right corner.

And yes, this is probably in the wrong forum. But once again there is no intuitive way to get a list of forums from this page. And you can't climb the cookie tree either. That just takes you to a list of posts in all the forums. Smart thing would be to have an option in Quick access to take me to the parent forum and list all the forums.



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I want to see when a value starts to occur more often per test.

September 9, 2016, 12:44 am
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Cannot figure out how to graph results to be able to see when the number of Tie’s start to occur more often than a result of Win’s or Losses. When the difference between two vertical values between adjacent horizontal points is only a value of 1. And number of horiz points might be 20 or 200 or 2,000.

Sample data.

Test 1 Win        Test 2 Lost

Test 3 Tie

Test 4 Lost

So with Tests on Horz axis and Vert axis count so far of Win, Lost or Tie

On horiz marker Test 4. Win at 1, Tie at 1 and Lost at 2.

Thought to use 3 lines to plot current total of Wins, Ties and Losses on vert on end of each test. So total of Wins, Ties and Losses equals the test number.

This used to see how my code learns. Faster code learns, the better my code. Some expectations: After some point the majority of the results will be a Tie. I am looking to see when results start being mostly a Tie.

I will not know in advance how many tests before results start to be mostly a Tie it could be in 20 tests or 2,000.

Using Access to store results in a table. Figured to import Access table tblResults into an Excel sheet to use as data for the chart.

I used Test # for each horz marker, but to save space, I could just number horz point Test 4 as just 4.

Not sure why sometimes when I copy text of my question from word I end up with much bigger text then when I just type question in this form. Haven't found a way to make the big text smaller. I would like to know, BUT how to plot the graph MUCH more important.

Mark J

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Pivot Table Grand Totals

September 8, 2016, 7:37 am
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Hello, <o:p></o:p>

I have a pivot table that displays columns of only numeric data and other columns with only text descriptions. When I apply the grand total layout to the columns, it gives me the grand total for the numeric value. For the text columns, it shows one of the text cells as the grand total.

How do I apply the grand total function on the pivot table to only the numeric values? I would want the text grand total column left blank.

Thanks for all the help!

Alicia<o:p></o:p>


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Does a MERGE in Power Query (Get & Transform) always result in a new query?

August 25, 2016, 3:36 pm
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I am used to dealing with tables and queries in Access, so some shift in my knowledge is necessary.

  • I have a 350K row query in Power Query, Excel 2016
  • I need to essentially do a VLOOKUP of one of the column to another table with just 20 values in it and return ALL rows in the main query, with a column that shows what matches so I can quickly filter/unfilter as needed.

In Access, I'd just do a left join and add the column from the 20 record table to the query and could easily filter on nulls or values.

In Excel, it seems the only way to do this is the "MERGE" generates a 3rd query. This is another 350,000 record database. This 3rd query is correct, but my Excel file effectively doubles in size.

Is there no way to have this matched column added to the first query of 350K records and eliminate the need for the massive data requirements the 3rd query adds?

I could have, of course, done the vlookup in the first table much faster and with much less data overhead, but a VLookup in a 350,000 record database makes filtering unbearable. System totally bogs down.

Ed

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