With Microsoft Power BI publisher for Excel, you can take snapshots of your most important insights in Excel, like PivotTables, Charts, and ranges and pin them to dashboards in Power BI. What can you pin? Just about anything in an Excel worksheet. You can select a range of cells from a simple sheet or table, a PivotTable or PivotChart, illustrations and images, text.
Download the official /r/Excel Add-in to convert Excel cells into a reddit table. I know there are great plug-ins for Fuzzy Lookups on Windows machines but I work in a Mac office. I have 3 cols of data: Col A = My accounts.
What you can’t pin: You cannot pin 3D Maps or visualizations in Power View sheets. There are also some elements you can pin, but it wouldn’t make much sense to, like a Slicer or Timeline filter. When you pin an element from Excel, a new tile is added to a new or existing dashboard in Power BI. The new tile is a snapshot, so it’s not dynamic, but you can still update it. For example, if you make a change to a PivotTable or Chart you’ve already pinned, the dashboard tile in Power BI isn’t updated automatically, but you can still update your pinned elements by using Pin Manager.
You’ll learn more about Pin Manager below. Download and install Power BI publisher for Excel is an add-in you can download and install on desktop versions of Microsoft Excel 2010 with SP1 and later. Once you have the publisher installed, you’ll see a new Power BI ribbon in Excel, where you can sign-in and out of Power BI, pin elements to dashboards, and manage elements you’ve already pinned. The Power BI publisher for Excel add-in is enabled by default, but if for some reason you don’t see the Power BI ribbon tab in Excel, you’ll need to enable it. Click File Options Add-ins COM Add-ins. Select Microsoft Power BI publisher for Excel.
Pin a range to a dashboard You can select any range of cells from your worksheet and pin a snapshot to any number of existing or new dashboards in Power BI. In your worksheet, select a range, and then click Pin. If you’re not already signed into Power BI, you’ll be prompted to. In Pin to dashboard, select an existing dashboard or create a new one, and then click Pin. Pin a Chart to a dashboard Just click on the chart, and then click Pin. Manage pinned elements With Pin Manager, you can update (refresh) a pinned element’s associated tile in Power BI. You can also remove the pin between an element you’ve already pinned to dashboards in Power BI.
To update tiles in your dashboard, in Pin Manager, select one or more elements and then click Update. To remove the mapping between a pinned element in Excel and the associated tile in a dashboard, click Remove.
When you click Remove, you’re not removing the element from your worksheet in Excel or deleting the associated tile in the dashboard. You are removing the pin, or mapping, between them. The element will no longer appear in Pin Manager. If you pin the element again, it will appear as a new tile. To remove a pinned element (a tile) from a dashboard, you’ll need to do that in Power BI.
In the tile you want to delete, click the Open menu icon and then click Delete tile. Contact us for PowerBI information at [email protected] Blog post content credit to the Microsoft PowerBI team!. Posted in. Tagged,. With the launch of Office 2016 and so many other new features in Office 365, Atidan is pleased to partner with Brainstorm to offer their QuickHelp On Demand training offering.
Brainstorm QuickHelp is a subscription that gives all of your users access to video and reference help right within the applications such as Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. For immediate help and training right when and where they need it. The subscription includes:. Thousands of short, on-demand training clips hosted in the cloud. Searchable content complete with course lists, favorites, and Quick Ribbon tips. Simultaneous see-and-do clips, delivered immediately Please check out the enclosed video demo link: Videos are added very frequently as new products and features are released.
Also included is a live monthly training called QuickCasts at no additional charge. Initial subscription covers up to 50 users and is extremely cost effective. Additional subscriptions can be purchased individually and volume licensing is available. Considering the cost of training and your staff’s productivity, we believe this will pay for itself many times over! Why Quickcasts work:. Assisted help desk functionality to answer questions via videos. Customized course lists and the ability to add corporate content.
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These are orderable in any quantity for any topic including Office 365, all of the Office 2016 products, Windows 10, etc. Contact the Atidan team today at [email protected]!. Posted in.
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We set out to make working together easier and more impactful by building a suite of integrated apps and services that removes barriers and empowers teams to do and achieve more. Office has always been the go-to tool for helping individuals do their best work—whether for professional documents, powerful analyses or school presentations. People often start and end their work in Office, but there is often a messy middle that involves a lot of discussion—in person, by phone or via various tools—as well as multiple (sometimes conflicting) inputs.
Today we are delivering a set of experiences that is built for making teamwork seamless. We have had real-time co-authoring in all of our web apps since 2013. We are now taking it to the next level by building it directly into our native apps. With this release, we’re making co-authoring in Word real-time, which lets you see what others are writing immediately, as it happens. We’re committed to expanding real-time co-authoring to each of our native apps and you should expect to see more over time. Skype for Business is now available in the client apps, allowing you to IM, screen share, talk or video chat right in your docs.
This same experience will be coming to Office Online later this fall. Skype for Business also has faster screen sharing and now adds the option to start a real-time co-authoring session from any conversation or meeting. Keep teams connected with Office 365 Groups, now available as part of Outlook 2016 and in a new Outlook Groups app on iOS, Android and Windows Phone. Office 365 Groups allows individuals to easily create public or private teams. Each group includes a shared inbox, calendar, cloud storage for group files, and a shared OneNote notebook to keep the team productive.
Office 365 Planner helps teams organize their work, with the ability to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, set due dates and update status. Planner’s visual dashboards and email notifications help keep everyone informed on the overall progress of their initiative.
Planner will be available in preview, to Office 365 First Release customers, starting next quarter. Originally unveiled earlier this year, is today available in private preview and will become part of Office 365 in 2016.
GigJam is an unprecedented new way for teams to accomplish tasks and transform business processes by breaking down the barriers between devices, apps and people. Works for you In today’s workplace, we have too many apps, devices and tools—we just don’t have enough time. Office is built to cut through the complexity and help you get things done quickly. It gets work done for you. Some highlights:. Outlook 2016 provides the smartest inbox yet, delivering lightning fast search, removing low priority mail automatically and making sure everyone on the To: line has the right access to modern, cloud-based attachments from OneDrive. We also have significant new updates to OneDrive for Business coming later this month across sync, browser, mobile, IT control and developer experiences.
The highlight is the preview of the next generation sync client for Windows and Mac, offering improved reliability and selective sync, as well as increased file size and volume limits. Tell Me helps you easily and quickly find the right Office feature or command, and Smart Lookup brings insights from the web right into your documents. Previously available only in Office Online, Tell Me and Smart Lookup are now available across the Office 2016 client apps. Excel 2016 now includes integrated publishing to Power BI and new modern chart-types to help you make the most of your data. The cloud-powered most recently used documents list allows you to pick up right where you left off in seconds, because it travels with you across your devices whether working in Office Online, the mobile apps or in the 2016 client apps. Perfect with Windows 10 While we have made a lot of progress on delivering Office cross-platform and remain committed to this strategy, we see Windows as being “home” for Office. Together, Office 365 and Windows 10 are the most complete solution for getting things done.
With Windows Hello, you can sign in to your PC and Office 365 with a simple look or a touch—no need to type a password anymore. In the coming months, Cortana will get even smarter and more useful by gathering intelligence on Office 365 through Outlook 2016 support. With the Office Mobile apps and Continuum on Windows phones, your phone can act as a desktop, and you can project, create or edit your presentation or sales budget from your phone to a monitor while using the same phone to take notes with the OneNote app. Sway on Windows 10 was released in early August, and customers love it! It has received a 4.6/5 app store ranking, with customers calling it “funtastic,” “brilliant” and “elegant.” People love Sway’s simple and intuitive yet powerful approach to next-generation digital storytelling.
With Sway, you provide the content, and Sway creates beautiful, shareable, interactive stories that look great on any screen. Our Offi ce Mobile apps on Windows 10 (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) have also received great reception and 4+ app store rankings. Customers say they are touch-friendly, fast and easy to use—making them wonderful for on-the-go-productivity. For the enterprise Office 2016 apps with Office 365 provide the most secure Office yet. We are adding built-in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to significantly reduce the risk of leaking sensitive data by giving IT admins tools to centrally create, manage and enforce policies for content authoring and document sharing. Multifactor Authentication ensures secure access to content anywhere when employees are away from the corporate network.
We are also adding Information Rights Management to Visio. Then, later this year, we will be enabling Enterprise Data Protection (EDP) in Windows 10, with support in Office Mobile, which allows more secure corporate content sharing across corporate managed apps and network/cloud locations, preventing inadvertent content sharing outside corporate boundaries. We will be following up with EDP for Office on Windows desktop in early 2016. Some of our favorite enterprise apps—Visio and Project—have been updated as well. With Visio 2016, customers can get started quickly with diagramming using starter diagrams and contextual tips.
Bringing process models, manufacturing plant or IT architecture to life is now only one step away. With Project 2016, customers can streamline resource engagement processes, manage resource pools through visual heat maps, benefit from multiple timelines, and create custom experiences in Project desktop through write-back capabilities for add-ins. We are also making deployment easier and have a lot of other new capabilities to help IT professionals, as announced in our two weeks ago. Office 2016 for Mac In July, we released to our Office 365 customers.
The new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote are a significant step forward and provide the best of both worlds for Mac users—a familiar Office experience paired with the best of the Mac platform. The level of engagement and excitement about this Office for Mac release has surpassed our expectations. As promised in July, today Office 2016 for Mac will also be available as a one-time purchase. Ongoing Office 365 customer value Whew—that was a lot! With this release, we’re also shifting the cadence of Office on Windows to feel much more like the cadence we have on the Office mobile and web apps, which release every month with new value.
So, going forward, Office 365 customers will now enjoy new features and capabilities delivered continuously in the Office desktop applications as part of their subscription. It’s a new day for our desktop apps. And as a bit of a teaser, here are some examples of the types of new features and benefits Office 365 customers will see:. Built for teamwork—We’re committed to rich co-authoring and collaboration across our native clients, starting in Word 2016, with other big advances in collaboration coming throughout the year. By the end of 2015, we’ll introduce Office 365 Groups insights and discovery in Office Delve. In addition, we will have a new generation of personal work analytics in Office Delve that will help individuals, teams and organizations to be more effective at work by understanding their reach and impact, time allocation and network.
Works for you—For those of you who are excited about our new charts and forecasting, we will be delivering even more new charts, formulas, connectors and other Excel capabilities throughout the year. (If you’re interested in telling us which charts and charting features you’d like to see first, we have a going on our right now!).
We also have some very exciting developments in the pipeline for PowerPoint that will make it easier to design and deliver presentations to wow and engage your audience. Perfect on Windows 10—We are especially excited about how even more valuable your personal assistant Cortana can be when she has insights from Office. This will start to allow Cortana to unlock helpful scenarios, like retrieving your documents, preparing for meetings and more. Get started. Are you ready to purchase? Buy Office 365 to get the new 2016 apps – contact us at [email protected].
Are you an existing Office 365 customer who is ready to upgrade? Go for instructions on how to upgrade to Office 2016 for home, or for business customers. Do you want to learn more? Credit for this blog content is from Microsoft blog. Posted in,. Tagged,. Atidan is pleased to be a part of the business intelligence revolution – for over ten years we have worked with powerful visualization tools starting with the early versions of SQL Server and many third party tools.
Now, it is even easier than ever to collect data from almost ‘anywhere’, create ‘stories’ from your data, create insights with simple drag-and-drop gestures, and share your dashboards and metrics internally and externally. Contact us today to see the latest release of Microsoft Power BI. Microsoft Power BI is a collection of online services and features that enables you to find and visualize data, share discoveries, and collaborate in intuitive new ways. There are two experiences now available for Power BI: the new experience, generally referred to as Power BI, and the previous experience which is referred to as Power BI for Office 365. The new experience is centered on, an online service where you can quickly create dashboards, share reports, and directly connect to (and incorporate) all the data that’s important to you. The new experience also introduces the Power BI Desktop, a dedicated report authoring tool that enables you to transform data, create powerful reports and visualizations, and easily publish to Power BI.
The new experience extends to all your mobile devices, too. Note If you were using the previous experience and want to migrate to the new experience, you can to understand and prepare for the migration process. The following sections provide an overview of the new experience, along with introductions and links to learn more about the details and capabilities of each offering. Power BI – the new experience In the new experience, Power BI displays dashboards on the Power BI service that are interactive, and can be created and updated from many different data sources.
Three elements are primary to the new experience:. In the new experience, you create dashboards that keep you informed about what’s most important about your business. Just like a dashboard in your car displays important information about your vehicle, such as its speed, its fuel level, or how healthy the engine is, dashboard in Power BI display important information about your business.
In Power BI, dashboards display tiles that represent important information about your business. Tiles are based on reports (just like gauges are based on vehicle data from the engine, the fuel tank, or the battery). You can select a tile to explore more information from the underlying report. The new experience also introduces a dedicated report authoring tool:.
With Power BI Desktop, you get a powerful and dedicated report authoring tool that enables you to connect to and combine data from lots of different sources, using Power BI Desktop’s Query Editor. From the datasets you build with Query Editor you can create rich reports and visualization within Power BI Desktop.
And when you’re done, publishing to the Power BI service is easy. There’s a lot more to learn about the new experience, and plenty of content to help you. The following links provide information about the new experience, and start with overview information (to get your familiar, oriented, and comfortable) then move into specifics.
A separate section is dedicated to the Power BI Desktop, and those links also go from overview to specifics. Getting Started – the new experience The following links provide guidance on the new experience in Power BI. Using Power BI Desktop The following links start with an overview of Power BI Desktop, then describe common tasks and capabilities that Power BI Desktop provides.
Posted in. Tagged,. Data cards–Tooltips the way you want them! Data cards extends the Power Map tooltip to let you display more contextual information about the data on your map. This becomes powerful when you need to quickly drill down into the details behind the columns and pie chart visualizations, like showing a list of Olympic events and associated medal count spanning a time period for a specific country. Just hover over or click any visualization on the map and a data card is displayed with easily readable information about the geo, height, category and time related to the data point.
You can also customize the data cards to fit your data exploration and presentation needs. Some of the options available are:.
Add/remove/change aggregation of data fields. Add a title (e.g.
Location name). Re-order the data fields. Rename the data field headers. Select from a set of layout templates Below is an example of a customized data card.
Notice that event a series of data (from aggregate values) can be displayed, allowing you to drill down into the more interesting details of the data on your map. Learn more about and let us know what you think about this new feature.
Heat map improvements Using heat map visualizations in Power Map tours is great way to see trends and outliers in your data through a color scale. Below is a tour scene with traditional heat map visualizations. This month’s update comes with a few cool new ways you can use heat maps to represent the data just the way you want. Changing aggregation type The traditional heat map only showed sum data. Now you can use heat maps to represent other aggregation types, like average. By changing the aggregation type, an option in the Layer Options tab, we were able to display the average cost of new construction projects in the greater Seattle Area. Customizing the color scale The traditional heat map displayed points with a color scale ranging from blue to green, yellow and red.
To better represent your data, it may be more effective to display your data across just a portion of this color scale or choose an entirely different color scale all together. Also under the Layer Options tab, you will find an option to change the color of your heat map visualizations.
Select Custom in the drop down and then just choose the colors you want to include. Using the same tour scene, we changed the heat map colors to just blue and red.
With these new customizations, what you can do with heat map visualizations is really limited to the data you have. Imagine an accumulated image of precipitation measurements of over 30 years can be made to look like with these options in Power Map. Power Map for Excel is available with any that includes Office desktop apps. To use Power Map, open Excel and go to Insert Map. If you have automatic updates enabled for your Office 365 subscription, you should receive this Power Map update soon.
If you don’t have automatic updates enabled in Excel, go to File Account Update Options Update Now. Learn about all the powerful and take your analysis further by sharing and collaborating on business insights with colleagues using. Learn more about. See all.
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