Category Archives: Office

Create a Microsoft 365 Developer Sandbox (including 25 E5 Test users) to test Power BI (and Fabric too)

Posted on August 6, 2023 by wolfgang

Well… there is an easy way to start you Microsoft 365 test-journey today. With the Microsoft 365 Developer Program, you just create your own M365 sandbox – including 25 user E5 licenses for development purposes including fully configured sample data … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Practices, Business Intelligence, Cloud, InformationSharing, Office, Power Platform, PowerBI | 1 Comment

Use Edge / Chrome Profiles to facilitate multiple Office.com Tenants

Posted on August 5, 2023 by wolfgang

In my work life as a consultant, I get access to many different customer environments – in some cases our company user is added as a guest to the customers Active Directory but in some cases we get new users. … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, Cloud, InformationSharing, Office, Presentations | 2 Comments

How to change URL-copy&paste back to normal (URL only)

Posted on November 12, 2021 by wolfgang

Some months ago I switched to Microsoft Edge as my default web browser. I don’t know when it started, but out of a sudden the copy&paste of URLs out of Edge ended strange in the destination application. A new feature … Continue reading →

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Compare Service Capabilities in the Microsoft 365 Portal

Posted on July 6, 2021 by wolfgang

Today, I found some hidden gem in the Microsoft 365 portal. I was browsing through the list of available products and – for me totally new – found the Compare checkbox right next to the listed products. You maybe know … Continue reading →

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Power BI Tip #3 – Download to PowerPoint

Posted on October 17, 2016 by wolfgang

Silently new functionality was published to powerbi.com. The export of Power BI reports to Power Point is now available. To start the export, open a report and select the action “Export to PowerPoint” After the preparation process you’ll be asked … Continue reading →

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Pin Excel Objects in Power BI Dashboards

Posted on January 17, 2016 by wolfgang

Excel and Power BI are now working closer together. With the (preview) release of the Power BI publisher for Excel users are now able to publish parts of their Excel workbook (pivot tables, charts or cell ranges) to Power BI … Continue reading →

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Excel 2016 Preview–Welche Business Intelligence Features warten auf uns?

Posted on March 30, 2015 by wolfgang

Mit der Ankündigung der Preview Version des neuen Office Paketes (Office 2016) wurden auch einige Geheimnisse und Ankündigungen aus dem BusinessIntelligence Bereich gelüftet. Excel 2016 wird unter dem Schlagwort “Business Intelligence, built in” um zahlreiche Features erweitert. Power Query Power … Continue reading →

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