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And here's to another 15 years...

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    And here's to another 15 years...

    Hi peeps,

    I've just noticed that it's 15 years to the day that I joined this forum. There's too many people to mention, but thanks for the free L&D and numerous pickles you've bailed me out of over the years. I'd have been sacked a lot time ago if it wasn't for this community.

    Here's to the next 15 years (and then I'll hopefully have one eye on early-ish retirement).

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    Re: And here's to another 15 years...

    Happy anniversary!!!
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    Re: And here's to another 15 years...

    Ditto .................
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    Re: And here's to another 15 years...

    Cheers peeps. Over the next 15 years I'll be focused on upping my 365 game (latest functions & PQ) now that my workplace is apparently rolling it out in the near future.

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    Re: And here's to another 15 years...

    You won't find much use for PQ with 365 - its functions are amazing.

    Here's a useful resource for you: https://bettersolutions.com/excel/fu...-functions.htm

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    Re: And here's to another 15 years...

    Quote Originally Posted by AliGW View Post
    You won't find much use for PQ with 365
    Completely disagree. I use PQ all the time in 365.
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    I find very little use for PQ these days with the functions available in 365. Most of what I used to use PQ for can be done using formulae now. Not EVERYTHING, but most things in my case.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AliGW View Post
    in my case.
    I think that's the key part.

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    Re: And here's to another 15 years...

    Yeah I'm with romperstomper. My role is pricing/benchmarking/bid analysis related so consolidating multiple (sometimes 100's) workbooks using PQ is a gamechanger.

    Nice one for the link Ali, it's already bookmarked from you sharing it previously.

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    Re: And here's to another 15 years...

    Horses for courses! When I was working, I used PQ in conjunction with PowerBI, but I'm retired now.

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    Re: And here's to another 15 years...

    Don't rub it in! Unless you're in the BI team you don't get any meaningful access to PowerBI in here (just pre-prepared reports). I'm basically a self-service user trying to make my job as easy as pos with the tools I've got, i.e. Excel 2021 (until we upgrade).

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    One thing that I mourned upon retirement was my loss of access to Power BI. It was fun - a quirky platfrom that required a lot of ingenuity to get it to do what we wanted (school pupil performance analysis), but I relished the challenge. It wasn't easy to pass on to my successor, as I'd been learning on the hoof. He did carry on with it, though, so my groundwork must have been half decent and our colleagues loved the dashboards.

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