Power Query caches metadata (file lists, folder structures) from SharePoint to improve performance. When you connect via From SharePoint Folder, Power Query stores a local snapshot of the library’s ...

In a previous letter, I detailed how a relative gave their lawyer full financial and healthcare power of attorney. After my relative was declared mentally incompetent by two doctors, the lawyer ...

New laptops with ARM processors (such as some Surface models) run older software through an emulation layer, which can cause Power Query to crash. Installing the ...

Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a ...

I'm used to working with the setting.json file (in .vscode folder, regardless of working in Cursor or not): "al.packageCachePath": [ "./.alpackages" ], When I don't specify the setting, the MCP does ...

Excel workbooks containing massive datasets and complex formulas can become incredibly slow, even on powerful computers. Lagging scrolling, slow formula recalculation, and lengthy save times are ...

🤔 Why Use Excel Power Query Editor? Let’s be honest: Excel’s built-in Power Query editor is... not great. It’s slow, clunky, Windows-only, and the Advanced Editor is barely an editor at all. We got ...

Have you ever faced the frustration of trying to combine multiple Excel files, only to realize their sheet names don’t match? It’s a common headache for anyone working with data from varied sources.

Have you ever had an application developed in C# that works perfectly on your own PC, but when you have someone else run it, it fails with a "file not found" error? The cause of this problem is often ...