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Weather 2

By Jeff Lenning | December 23, 2025 |

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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Weather 1

By Jeff Lenning | December 16, 2025 |

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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Geography Data Type

By Jeff Lenning | December 5, 2018 |

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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