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💖 Link for Sue's fundraiser  🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off  QOTW: Q1 Review - did we achieve our goals? Other Topics ⏱️Tardy Giles 👟Super Shoes 🤦🏻‍♂️Mistakes bring us joy 🧢Merch!  🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏼Sloppelgangers 🚗Driving Instructor Respect ✈️The Fighter Pilot Fallacy 🪟Frameworks   Folks to follow Zoe Douglas  Laura Graham- Brown  Richard Sumner  Craig Hatmaker    Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

QOTW: Should the focus be on 100% accuracy or directionally correct reports? Other Discussions 🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️Running until June 🚙Gile's has never filled up with gas before! 🪙Do CFO's actually care about AI? 📈Mark and Giles get worried about the Power BI v Excel debate ⏩Is not keeping up actually a life hack 🤖Claude Code back story https://youtu.be/PQU9o_5rHC4 Folks to follow Chris Webb - https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/ George Mount -  https://stringfestanalytics.com/ Karen Abecia - https://karenabecia.github.io/dashboards/ Eugene Meidinger - https://www.sqlgene.com/   🧢👕Unpivot Merch 🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off    Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

Topic of the Week with pop-up guest Fay Bordbar:   What are Copilot Agents? Other Discussions 📡Giles StarLink success & falling back into the LinkedIn rant-wagon 💰For who the Road Tolls - it's Mark! 🌳ChatGPT shows its caring side to Sue and she finds 100GB of Storage to free up 📷Wyn's webcam fail Folks to follow: Chandeep Chhabra Fay Bordbar David Kofod Hanna Damian Bird 🔗Other Links Mentioned Tree Size:  RefTree Analyzer ( mistakenly referenced, but great tool! ):  LinkedIn Rant     🧢👕Unpivot Merch 🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off    Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

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?     🧢👕Unpivot Merch 🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off    Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

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      Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins Mark Proctor and Giles Male ( absent Sue Bayes  )

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     Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male ( absent Wyn Hopkins, )  

Question of the Week:   2026 Plans and coping with back to work blues. 🧢👕Unpivot Merch 🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off  Warning: May Contain Traces of Technical Content 🍫🪓Chocolate Chisels ❄️Snow 🚃Stockholm 🛷 Stair Sledging 🦒Australian Christmas 🛞Wagon Wheels 🎯Long Distance Darts 😰January Blues 🤔2025 Review       Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.  

Watch on YouTube: YouTube Live Question of the Year:   Highlights and Lowlights of 2025 plus hopes for 2026 🧢👕Unpivot Merch 🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off  Quiz of the year SharePoint Full Marathon Qualifiers Struggling with top 10 Features Die Hard Try Harder   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

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 🧢👕Unpivot Merch 🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off 

Question of the Week:   What are Best Practices you ignore? 🧢👕Unpivot Merch 🌏Global Excel Summit: UNPIVOT for 10% off  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?   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.  

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?   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

Question of the Week:   What are your top 3 modeling mistakes to avoid.  👾 10 Goto 20 - Reminiscing Coding and Games of the Past 😬 Mark feels like a spare part ( "I do not think that word means what you think it means") 😳 Giles suffers from foot-in-mouth disease 🤖 AI over-Hyped?  Surely not? 🍫 Will chocolate ever be a healthy snack?   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

Question of the Week:  What shall we ask Deb and Leila? 🚩Red Flags 🦹Serial Killer Tips? 🤖 Excel Agent Mode ➡️ Swipe Right? ❓Excel Autocomplete 🏃‍♀️‍➡️ Is Speed Good? 🔢 Prompt Bingo 🍓Strawberry Laces 🩳Short Shorts? 🎛️ Video Editor Tips Thanks to our special Guests Deb Ashby Cellmates - YouTube Leila Gharani https://www.youtube.com/@LeilaGharani   Links to regular hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page

Question of the Week:  What's your Conference and Networking tips / hacks? 🥨Vienna Fabcon 🤝All about the members 🗞️News - Dataflows Gen 2 and UDFs 😶‍🌫️ How to Enter and Exit a conversation ⌛ Time Capsule Thanks to our sponsor 😆✈️Cabeau https://cabeau.com/products/evolution-s3-neck-pillow Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page

Question of the Week:  What's your favourite hardware? ⌚Tardy Giles 🎤 Rap Review ❎ Sue's XLOOKUP admission ⌨️Fn Backspace 🕜Sue's mysterious object 🤬Cross(ed) Wires - the most boring topic so far goes off! ⏲️ They call him Mark "High-Tech" Proctor 🦶🏻Foot Fans? ✈️Cabeau https://cabeau.com/products/evolution-s3-neck-pillow Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page

NO QUESTION OF THE WEEK???!!! Too much other stuff to chat about... ⌚Tardy Mark 😥Competition Pressure 🧘🏻‍♀️Sue's Zen advice 🎤East 17 Tribute Band request 😡Wyn's =COPILOT rant 💡Mark's =COPILOT use case 🥰Brian Julius Shout Out https://www.moderndata101.com/network/brian-julius 🔢 32,767 💚XLOOKUP day 🫶🏻 - Fwends 🐁Mark's wired Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

  Special guest Ken Puls returns to the pod this week.   Question of the week: What technologies are you currently ignoring and why? Other topics: 😴 Falling asleep during presentations 🐻 Out running a bear 🙊 Don’t say the C word 💬 Arguing with AI Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male. 🐒🔨🪛Ken Puls: https://excelguru.ca/

Question of the Week:   What are your favourite defaults and what would be on your wish list?  We all learn something new in this episode!! 🗣️ Wyn's emphasis game and talking to a wall 💙 Join us on BlueSky ⚓ Giles's ever-growing tattoo 🎬 Editing v just getting it out there 👁️Strava , social networks and why Mark left Facebook Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

Sue's back! Question of the Week:   How do you set things up for when you're away   Mark's offer: https://exceloffthegrid.com/modern-excel-formulas/   🔄️Pivot Refresh ☠️ Giles's new Tattoo ↔️ Excel compatibility versions 🐻 Running in the woods with Bears 🧑🏻‍✈️ Power BI Copilot Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

It's the one and only Bill Jelen!  🫡 Find Bill's Channel here:  https://www.youtube.com/@MrXL/videos   Question of the Week:   Ask Bill Anything   💚Surprise Guest for Giles 💛 Awards for Mark And Giles 💚 Wyn's #Nightmare 💛 Bill's Fatboy Slim experience 💚 Publishing / Flighting / In Person / AI   Links to hosts and other content Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.