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Wishlist: A way to truely, honestly, for the love of god, please, I beg you for mercy, force all pivot tables to fully refresh everything about themselves — th
by abtinf 4y ago
Wishlist:
A way to truely, honestly, for the love of god, please, I beg you for mercy, force all pivot tables to fully refresh everything about themselves — their data, caches, retained items, etc.
Better pivot table value formatting: use the formatting from the source data set, let me format multiple value columns at once, or apply formatting from value cells to the value columns themselves.
Please let me hide everything from a pivot table except for value columns. There are many scenarios where I would like to insert two pivot tables right next to each other, then have a third columns that refers to their cells for a calculation. I don’t need any of the other pivot table options to be available to the user. Dynamic array and lambda functions are not a substitute, because they do not cache results, which causes significant performance problems.
A workbook level option to open the workbook in a new process that doesn’t allow interaction with other workbooks. Sometimes, I build computationally intensive standalone workbooks that my users hate to have open, because they degrade performance for all of their other open workbooks. They have to resort to using excel online (or the outlook web preview) to be able to have my workbook open for reference while working on something else.
Freeze(x) or Staticize(x): a function that evaluates once and retains its value. I know a similar effect is possible by enabling iterative calculation, but that feels hacky and I don’t know what else is affected by turning iterative calculation on (the fact that it is disabled by default implies significant consequences).
In Power Query, a way to append the content of a table to another table, on every Refresh All. This would make it much easier to create snapshots and temporal reports. E.g. I want to know what the value of all sales orders as they were reported each day, verses what I can infer from the database today.
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