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Yaroslav Drohomyretskyi - HowToLearnExcel

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I'm passionate about exploring new tools and techniques, like Excel, Power Query, Power BI, and VBA, and I love sharing them with others. My channel: https://youtube.com/@howtolearnexcel?feature=shared

18 Followers  |  15 Following  |  41 Posts  |  Joined: 14.12.2024  |  1.8308

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Dynamic Arrays in Excel: Finally Explained for Beginners
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Dynamic Arrays in Excel — Intro
One formula → multiple results. No more dragging.

If this is new to you, you're right on time.
▶️ Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R38R...
#Excel #DynamicArrays #HowToLearnExcel

06.07.2025 19:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Power Query Filtering Mistake That Can Ruin Your Reports! (Fix It Now!)
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🚨 Power Query Filtering Mistake! 🚨
Missing data in your reports? It could be due to a common filter issue!
Learn how Power Query processes filters, why it hides data, and how to fix it with a simple formula for accurate reports.

🎥 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R9N...

#PowerQuery #ExcelTips

24.03.2025 20:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Convert Monthly Sales to Seasonal Sales: Excel Challenge 07
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Convert Monthly Sales to Seasonal Sales – Excel Challenge 07 🍂☀️❄️🌸

Manually summing sales by season? In this tutorial, we’ll use modern Excel formulas to group monthly sales into seasonal totals—fast & dynamically!

🎥 Watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGSJ...

#Excel #HowToLearnExcel

19.03.2025 21:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Transform Data Like a Pro! - Power Query Challenge 62
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Reshape Data Like a Pro! – Power Query Challenge 62 🚀

Messy financial data? No problem! In this challenge, we’ll clean up a dataset with years, revenues, and costs, then calculate yearly profit—all in Power Query!

🎥 Tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxov...

#PowerQuery #Excel #HowToLearnExcel

15.03.2025 22:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Combine Excel Files into One Sheet with Power Query – Quick & Easy!
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🚀 Combine Excel Files into One Sheet
Tired of copy-pasting from multiple workbooks? Use Power Query to effortlessly merge Excel files in seconds.

💡 Works even when new files are added!

🎥 Tutorial here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRYj...

#ExcelTips #PowerQuery #HowToLearnExcel

23.02.2025 08:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Mastering Powerful Regex Functions: Excel Challenge 05
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Master REGEXREPLACE in Excel – Count Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers & Special Characters! 🚀

📌 Why It’s Useful:

✅ No need for complex formulas or extra columns.
✅ Works with dynamic arrays for bulk analysis.
✅ Perfect for text validation & data cleanup.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRNj...

18.02.2025 22:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just finished the latest episode of the Unpivot podcast—loved it! 😂 The presentation tips and Mark's ideas are great.

The part about @cwebbbi.bsky.social was spot on.
Never fails to amaze me how he's always lightyears ahead.

Awesome Excel content here: blog.crossjoin.co.uk

15.02.2025 17:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Extract Emails Using REGEXEXTRACT: Excel Challenge 04
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🚀 Extract Emails in Excel with REGEXEXTRACT! 📨

Just dropped a quick tutorial on using Excel’s new REGEXEXTRACT function to pull emails from text—powerful yet super simple!

🔗 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykgY...
💬 Want a deeper dive? Let me know in the comments!
#Excel #Regex #HowToLearnExcel

15.02.2025 16:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Interesting. I thought these two approaches would take the same time. Great advice.
Thank you, @cwebbbi.bsky.social

09.02.2025 21:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Clean & Organize Data Like a Pro! - Power Query Challenge 54
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Clean & Organize Data Like a Pro! - Power Query Challenge 54

Messy reports? Power Query makes it easy! Learn to:
📌 Reshape scattered data into a structured summary
📌 Use List.Combine() & List.Alternate() for clean lists

🎥 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ0G...

#PowerQuery #HowToLearnExcel

09.02.2025 20:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Power Query is like chess. ♟️

Every move (step) shapes your final position.
A bad move early on? You’ll struggle later.
A well-placed transformation? Sets up a winning position.

Think ahead. Anticipate pitfalls. Win! ✅♜

Are you planning your steps, or just hoping for a lucky move? 🤔

#PowerQuery

09.02.2025 20:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Power Query Basics: Understanding Lists, Records & Tables Like a Pro!
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Power Query Basics: Lists, Records & Tables
📌 Lists {} – Store single-column values for quick calculations.
📌 Records [] – Hold named fields, great for lookups.
📌 Tables – The most powerful structure for merging & transforming data.

🎥 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YFC...

#PowerQuery

08.02.2025 12:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@excelguru.ca, great technique! I've used it a lot.
I also like to add the List.Buffer function to significantly enhance speed. It works wonders with large datasets, providing up to a 12X improvement.

25.01.2025 19:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
RESHAPING Tables with TOCOL and WRAPROWS: Excel DAF Challenge 01
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Reshape Tables with TOCOL & WRAPROWS in Excel

Transform messy tables effortlessly! Learn to reshape tables using Dynamic Array Formulas like TOCOL, WRAPROWS, and VSTACK. Ideal for Excel 365/2021 users.

🎥 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GHb...

#ExcelTips #DynamicArrays #HowToLearnExcel

25.01.2025 19:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

After 15+ years in Excel, it’s mind-blowing how fast it’s evolving! 🤯

Dynamic Arrays, Office Scripts, LAMBDA, Python integration, REGEX—it’s like Excel has become the ultimate Swiss Army knife 🛠️.

But with all these features, is it becoming overwhelming for new users? Or is it okay? 🧐
#Excel

25.01.2025 18:57 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
Shared Drive Full? Power Query to the Rescue!
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Clean Up Shared Drives with Power Query

Messy shared drive? Use Power Query in Excel to analyze folders, uncover large or duplicate files, and create reports. Learn to transform data, group by file types, and find storage hogs—all within Excel.

🎥 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcvB...

19.01.2025 21:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Group Every N Rows - Power Query Challenge 49
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Group Every N Rows - Power Query Challenge 49

Learn to group every N rows and calculate totals in Power Query!
Use a custom column with Table.PositionOf and Number.RoundDown functions to batch rows efficiently. Perfect for summarizing sales or surveys.

🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gRb...

19.01.2025 12:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Running Totals with a Condition - Power Query Challenge 48
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Running Totals with a Condition - Power Query Challenge 48

Learn to calculate running totals for specific rows, like defect-free units.
Use Table.PositionOf, Table.FirstN, and List.Sum for precision. Perfect for production or sales tracking!

🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVuo...

19.01.2025 12:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh, wow! I hadn’t seen that. There are so many all-star PQ creators... That’s awesome! I’m definitely going to check it out between the 'Unpivot' podcasts.
Thank you!

19.01.2025 12:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Great point. With LLMs used everywhere 'dead internet' theory no longer seems so absurd to me. I hope we won't go there.

14.01.2025 22:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

People will always find a way to optimize all the fun out of a process. But with social media, I’d say AI should be limited to tweaking formats and fixing typos—let the humans handle the rest.

14.01.2025 21:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Excel Pivot Tables 101: From Raw Data to Actionable Insights
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Excel Pivot Tables 101: Turn Raw Data into Insights

Master pivot tables in minutes! From creating your first table to advanced tricks like calculated fields and pivot charts, this tutorial covers it all.

🎥 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ots9...

#Excel #PivotTables #DataAnalysis

14.01.2025 19:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Group Customers by Month - Power Query Challenge 47
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Group Customers by Month - Power Query Challenge 47

Need to group data by month in Excel?

📌 Key Steps:
Transform dates into month names.
Group customers by month.
Combine customer names with Text.Combine.

🎥 Learn how: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xuj...

#PowerQuery #ExcelTips #HowToLearnExcel

14.01.2025 19:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Power Query Reshaping Trio: Transpose, Pivot, and Unpivot in 3 MINUTES!
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Power Query: Transpose, Pivot, and Unpivot

1️⃣ Transpose: Flip rows to columns.
2️⃣ Pivot: Turn rows into columns for summaries and reports.
3️⃣ Unpivot: Convert wide tables into clean, tall tables for analysis.

🎥 Watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ3N...

#PowerQuery #ExcelTips #HowToLearnExcel

12.01.2025 09:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Excel vs Power Query: The Rounding Difference That Can Ruin Your Reports!
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Did you know Excel and Power Query round differently?

Excel: Round Half Away From Zero
Power Query: Round Half to Even

This can cause issues in finance reports. Fix it with Number.RoundAwayFromZero in Power Query.

🎥 Learn how: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Qm...

#ExcelTips #PowerQuery

10.01.2025 05:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Power Query Partial Lookups: Automate Text Categorization Like a Pro in 5 MINUTES!
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Automate Text Categorization in Power Query!
Stop wasting time with manual sorting—use partial lookups to categorize data with keywords in just 5 minutes. Perfect for bank statements, surveys, or sales records.
🎥 Tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Kr...
✅ Subscribe: www.youtube.com/@howtolearne...

04.01.2025 15:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Test Grading Process - Power Query Challenge 45
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Ever graded tests with Power Query? Challenge 45 shows you how to mark answers, calculate scores, and pivot data for clean results—all in one query! Perfect for test results, surveys, or logic-based datasets.

📺 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTSz...

#PowerQuery #ExcelTips #DataCleaning

02.01.2025 20:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
How to Group Data by Quarters - Power Query Challenge 44
YouTube video by How to Learn Excel How to Group Data by Quarters - Power Query Challenge 44

Ever wondered how to group data by quarters in Power Query? This tutorial shows you how to take Year and Month columns and turn them into a seasonal summary.

📺 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuCm...

#PowerQuery #ExcelTips #HowToLearnExcel

27.12.2024 22:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Quick thought: Should Power Query’s default behavior be more forgiving with MissingField.Ignore?

✅ Pro: Fixes those annoying column errors
✅ Pro: Keeps queries running smoothly
❌ Con: Might hide unexpected issues
❌ Con: Could make debugging harder

Would you switch? 🤔
#PowerQuery #ExcelTips

21.12.2024 20:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Create Dynamic Columns from Nested Lists - Power Query Challenge 43
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🔄 Power Query Challenge 43: Create Dynamic Columns from Nested Lists!
🎥 New tutorial: Learn to transform nested data into clean columns with ease.
✔ Extract & transform lists
✔ Master nested table manipulations
📺 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvUX...

#PowerQuery #ExcelTips #HowToLearnExcel

21.12.2024 20:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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