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Ed Hansberry

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  1. Structured formatting of formulas

    8 votes
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    0 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Formulas and Functions  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  2. Aggregate 2D arrays by row or by column (especially relevant to dynamic arrays)

    7 votes
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    2 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Formulas and Functions  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  3. XLOOKUP to return an array of ranges

    18 votes
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    6 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Formulas and Functions  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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    Ed Hansberry commented  · 

    See this discussion in the Excel Tech Community for a specific example of what happens. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing-xlookup/bc-p/830248/highlight/true#M708

    Attached workbook will show how this works.

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  4. Unhide multiple worksheets at once

    747 votes
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    68 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Other  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    planned  ·  AdminExcel Team [MSFT] (Product Owner, Office.com) responded

    Good news. We are in the planning stages for improving the Unhide Sheet dialog box so that you can select multiple sheets and unhide them at the same time.

    Thanks for supporting this suggestion.
    Steve K [Excel]

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  5. Link workbook to an Access database to use Excel as front-end GUI.

    4 votes
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    5 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Data Import  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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    Ed Hansberry commented  · 

    I wouldn't hold my breath on this. MS seems to be moving to Power Platform for this kind of thing, which does support Excel as a backend, and a front-end soon. Between Power Apps and Power BI, plus whatever data source you want, like CDS or on-prem sources like SQL server or even Access databases, all of the functionality you discuss is there, and much MUCH more.

    It seems they are removing features from Access, not adding. They will not add Power Query to it (that idea with well over 1K votes was rejected), Data Access Pages was killed, Pivot queries were killed, and the Access to SQL upsizing wizard was killed.

    They haven't officially said of course, but Access seems to only get nominal features to keep it on par with other Office 365 apps, but there are no real breakthrough features.

  6. Add Power BI Dataflows as a data source in "Get & Transform Data"

    183 votes
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    16 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Data Import  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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    Ed Hansberry commented  · 

    FWIW, in the Office 365 Insiders build of Excel, Power Query has a "Power Platform" menu as a data source that is grayed out, and one of the members on the team said functionality was coming. I would hope that would include Power BI data sets, Data Flows, and CDS, just like it does on Power BI Desktop. I keep checking every week. It first showed up a month or so ago, or at least that was when I first noticed it. So it is coming....

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  7. Improve the Conditional Formatting Manager

    487 votes
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    97 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Formatting  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Accepting Votes  ·  AdminExcel Team [MSFT] (Product Owner, Office.com) responded

    Thanks for your support of this suggestion and all the great ideas in the comments. We have at least one improvement planned (resizing the dialogs – see link in the description), and we’re looking at some additional improvements.

    If you have specific ideas that aren’t already listed, please add them in a comment.

    Steve [Microsoft Excel]

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  8. Power Query Time Stamp of last updated Data

    19 votes
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    2 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Data Import  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  9. Get Tables working on protected sheets (add rows, sort, filter, etc.)

    1,444 votes
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    216 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Tables, Sorting and Filtering  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Accepting Votes  ·  AdminExcel Team [MSFT] (Product Owner, Office.com) responded

    Thanks for logging this great suggestion, Zack, and to others for voting it up. We’ll prioritize this according to the number of votes, so if there’s more interest, please make sure to register your vote!

    Thanks

    Ashvini Sharma
    Lead Program Manager
    Excel

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    Ed Hansberry commented  · 

    Personally I think ms would like to see Access die. PowerQuery has replaced virtually all of our “read” queries and SharePoint lists, excel tables and even SQL Express are easy to use. 2 years ago ms started giving access to all office pro licenses in 365. They seem to no longer consider it a premium product.

  10. Bring Power Pivot closer to Power BI Desktop Functionality

    104 votes
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    5 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » PivotTables and Power Pivot  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  11. Allow formulas to be formatted and editted like code in the formula dialog box

    14 votes
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    2 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Editing  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  12. Add 'date picker' to enable users to select a date from a mini calendar into cells

    1,744 votes
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    1188 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Formulas and Functions  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    started  ·  AdminExcel Team [MSFT] (Product Owner, Office.com) responded

    Hi all,

    We have been working on this, and wanted to get your feedback on how you see this feature fitting into your workflow. We have a quick one question survey for you to give us your thoughts on the look and keyboard shortcuts we have at this time. Please see here for more: aka.ms/datePickerSurvey

    Thanks!
    Blake, Excel Product Team

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  13. Maintain leading zeroes when entering values in cells

    1,499 votes
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    100 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Editing  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    started  ·  AdminExcel Team [MSFT] (Product Owner, Office.com) responded

    Thanks very much for your votes. And to those who took the time to fill in the survey, thank you! This is a brief update to let y’all know that we’ve started work on this feature request along with the one on changing numbers to scientific notation.

    - Urmi [Msft]

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  14. Have Excel scroll better when there are large cells.

    3,414 votes
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    976 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Viewing / Navigating Workbooks  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    planned  ·  AdminExcel Team [MSFT] (Product Owner, Office.com) responded

    I’m happy to let you know that we are in the planning stages to make Excel for Windows scroll without jumping to the edge of the cell so you’ll be able to scroll smoothly. We don’t yet have a target date, but wanted to tell you about our plans.

    We appreciate all the votes and comments supporting this suggestion.

    Thanks – Steve K [Excel]

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  15. Python as an Excel scripting language

    6,645 votes
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    493 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Macros and Add-ins  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Accepting Votes  ·  AdminExcel Team [MSFT] (Product Owner, Office.com) responded

    Wow.

    Thank you to all those participated in our survey. What an amazing number of responses, many of them with very deep content. We’re processing the over ten thousand responses(!), and already appreciate the time so many of you took to answer with passion and experience.

    Please know this survey is used to help influence various topics – both on Python as well as other related topics that the comments started to bleed into. Given the passion, I want to be clear this remains an area of exploration for us, without any specific timeline.

    We’ll provide updates as we progress on this feature request.

    Thanks!

    Ashvini Sharma
    Lead Program Manager
    Excel

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  16. COUNT.DISTINCT Values

    65 votes
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    7 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Formulas and Functions  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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    Ed Hansberry commented  · 

    @sergie - Mac, iOS, and iPadOS all have Dynamic Array functions for Insiders. Not sure about Android, but it will if it doesn't now.

  17. Default the Power Query formula bar as on

    64 votes
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    6 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Data Import  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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    Has anyone tried this lately? I opened Excel on a PC I am 99% sure I haven't used PQ on and formula bar was showing. It was the 1906 Monthly Targeted build.

  18. The Conditional Formatting Rules Manager badly needs the ability to be resized

    178 votes
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    42 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Formatting  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    planned  ·  AdminExcel Team [MSFT] (Product Owner, Office.com) responded

    I have great news to share. We are planning to make the Conditional Formatting Rules Manager and rules dialogs resizable. Thanks for all the votes and comments for this suggestion.

    We’ll provide more updates here as we get closer to releasing the update.

    Steve [Microsoft Excel]

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  19. Tables should default to "My table has headers" being ticked

    142 votes
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    10 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Tables, Sorting and Filtering  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  20. Convert Dynamic Arrays into Tables

    160 votes
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    23 comments  ·  Excel for Windows (Desktop Application) » Formulas and Functions  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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    Ed Hansberry commented  · 

    The biggest shortcoming to the new Dynamic Array functions is the inability to use them in a table.

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