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Data Types
Create a Dynamic Weather Forecast in Excel This is the second post in the Weather series. In this post, we’ll walk through how to build a dynamic weather forecast tool using Excel and Power Query. By the end, we’ll be able to simply click Refresh, and Excel will pull in the latest weather forecast based…
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How to Retrieve Latitude and Longitude in Excel from City and State This is the first post in a larger 3-part weather forecasting series we’ll build together. Along the way, we’ll sharpen our skills with the WEBSERVICE and FILTERXML functions, as well as utilize Power Query in upcoming tutorials. In this initial post, we’ll take…
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Manually searching for currency exchange rates is a thing of the past. With Excel’s smart integrations, we can now pull real-time foreign exchange data into our workbooks using built-in features and free web APIs. Whether we are looking up current rates or building a currency converter, Excel has all the tools we need to get…
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How to Insert Images into Excel Cells with Data Types and Use Them in PivotTables Welcome to the final post in the Pictures in Excel series! In this tutorial, we will insert images into Excel cells using data types and then incorporate these images into PivotTables. By the end of this post, you’ll learn how…
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Microsoft recently updated the built-in tools for retrieving stock quotes into Excel. If you’re typing closing prices into Excel manually, my recent California CPA Magazine article may be able to help you get it done faster. Specifically, it talks about how the Stock data type retrieves current quotes and related information, and how Power Query…
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As a quick follow up to my previous post about the Stocks data type, I wanted to talk about another data type: Geography. With the Geography data type, we can retrieve rich geographical data into Excel. Let’s check it out. Objective Let’s say we are working on a project and we wanted to create a…
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Well, I have a great update for you! We have the new system for retrieving stock quotes that we’ve been waiting for. It is the Stocks data type. But, first, a quick background. Historically, we were able to retrieve stock quotes by using the MSN MoneyCentral web query. I wrote about that here. And, that…
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