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AI Tipping Point and Do You Struggle to Learn?

Question of the Week:   Do you struggle to learn and what tips do you have?

Folks to follow:
Mike Girvin

Kurt Buhler

Matt Brattin 

Peeraya Apiwat

Warning: May Contain Traces of Technical Content

🏊🏻‍♂️Ice Swims

🔥Heated Blankets

💓Is $130 expensive?
🤔Can't even say Ontology
🖨️Do you print anything?
⁉️No QAT?
 

 

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

Learning Limits, Kit Kats, Claude and Compatibility

Wyn is back with tales of KitKats from Japan, Sue is away bathing in Ice Lakes, Giles is gearing up for life in a Campervan, and Mark is still not happy with =IMPORTCSV

Worth a follow:
Andy Cutler  

Andrew Moss  

Hilary Smart 

 

Question of the Week: Can Anyone Learn Excel and Power BI

 

And then...

🚽 Phantom Toilet seats

🐙 Takoyaki 

🚅Trapped on a Train

🚙 Giles on Tour

🔓 Unlocking Spreadsheets

🎣 Not Biting on LinkedIn

🔢 Versions in Excel 

 

 

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins Mark Proctor and Giles Male

( absent Sue Bayes  )

If you could ask any question to the Excel World Champion, what would you ask?

This week we have special guest Dim Early - the reigning Excel World Champion - who took part in our new feature called “If you could ask any question to the Excel World Champion what would you ask? But since you’re not hear we’ll ask on your behalf”. It’s not a catchy title but it is descriptive 😁

 

Plus, we had Question of the Week: To be an expert, what’s more important, depth of knowledge of breadth of knowledge.

 

And there where the usual set of unexpected revelations

🎤 Mic drops
😡 New feature rant

🏃‍♀️ Running 51 miles in a week

➕ 99.5 is NOT 100

🍄 Mushrooms of knowledge

🚙 Back on the road again

 

 

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Hosts Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male

( absent Wyn Hopkins, )

 

Are you ready for 2026?

Question of the Week:   2026 Plans and coping with back to work blues.
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Warning: May Contain Traces of Technical Content

🍫🪓Chocolate Chisels
❄️Snow
🚃Stockholm
🛷 Stair Sledging
🦒Australian Christmas
🛞Wagon Wheels
🎯Long Distance Darts
😰January Blues
🤔2025 Review

 

 

 

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

 

Christmas Livestream - Die Hard Try Harder

Watch on YouTube: YouTube Live

Question of the Year:   Highlights and Lowlights of 2025 plus hopes for 2026

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Quiz of the year

SharePoint Full

Marathon Qualifiers

Struggling with top 10 Features

Die Hard Try Harder

 

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

Red Flag Finds - and a Chris (tmas) Angyal

Question of the Day:   When you open a file what are the Red Flags 🚩 that indicates it wasn't created by an expert?


Special Guest Cristian Angyal https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristian-angyal/

🔄️ Will Online Schedule refresh ever come to Excel?
🔏 Password Weakness in Excel
👉🏻 SharePoint List Refresh speed up 
🐍 Python in Google  https://colab.google/

🚩Any File not created by Mark

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Best Practice Confessions & Terminology Overload

Question of the Week:   What are Best Practices you ignore?

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Be prepared for some shocking confessions:

📅 Wyn doesn’t set date tables

🧮 Giles abandons simple formulas

➡️ Mark uses Merge & Centre

🧹Sue leaves unused measures to collect dust

 

 

Plus, there the usual unexpected revelations:

🙎‍♂️ Mansplaining remains un-explained

📋 Ontology becomes an everyday word

🎄 Who gets invited to Christmas parties?

🥊 Power BI vs Excel… Bring it on.

🛌 Stickering a hotel room

💻 Is Export to Excel OK?

 

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

 

Trolls, New Features and Common Data Problems

Trolls, Features and Common Data problems.   In this chaotic episode of Unpivot, the gang kicks things off with Halloween antics and quickly spirals into the wild world of Excel, Power BI, and internet comment drama. From TikTok trolls who think Power Pivot lives in Access (spoiler: it doesn’t) to debates about whether picking pumpkins is just muddy shopping, it’s a rollercoaster of laughs and learning.

They also dive into juicy new features like visual calcs, agent mode, and formula-by-example, and share their favourite ways to handle messy data, missing dates, and the eternal mystery of “what does sales actually mean?” 

Question of the Week:   What are Common Data Problems you come across

🎃 What does "Pick your own" actually mean?

😡 Haters gonna Hate

👩‍💻 Lots of New Features in Excel and Power BI

📊 Visual calcs

🤔 Is Excel a database?

 

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Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.