Monday, September 28, 2015

Dynamic Chart Axis with Slicer!!! - Switching between Year/Quarter/Month/Week views

OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!

I've been looking for this for so long it's ridiculous...  I've always wanted to be able to simply use a slicer to change the row values on my pivot tables/charts from Year to Quarter to Month without needing multiple tables/charts. 

This guy is brilliant and very kind to share with all of us.  Please check his article.  It's awesome.


Oh man, my job is so much easier now... :)

Monday, September 21, 2015

Pulling Table Data from PDF & Merging Multiple Sheets Into One

Okay all, this is a common problem that I've run into before... However, with updated software, the methodologies change a bit.  Here is my latest method of collecting table data from a PDF without purchasing adobe or another 3rd party software solution.

**NOTE: These methods were discovered online by searching.  I did not come up with them.  I'm just sharing, because that's how we get smarter together!

How to collect the data using PowerQuery:
http://simblais.com/simblogue/blog/2013/12/16/using-power-query-on-a-pdf-with-some-help-from-word/

**I use the "Load To..." option to drop the tables directly into a worksheet instead of the data model.

How to Consolidate the many worksheets into one sheet (I used the VBA code in the article):
http://excel.tips.net/T003005_Condensing_Multiple_Worksheets_Into_One.html

**I added the following line at the bottom of the code to show the final worksheet:  Sheets("Combined").activate

Again, these solutions are not my work, but definitely useful.  Please give these sites their due respect if you find this information useful.