However, the system is not waiting for the Power Query table to be finished with the data updating before starting with the pivot table’s updating process.
The pivot table shows a summary of the data in the Power Query table. When we have the “Enable Background Refresh” property enabled, we are telling the system that every time we ask it to refresh the Power Query query, we authorize the system to move on with other tasks, without needing to wait for that query refreshing process to be complete. This entry was posted in Excel, General and tagged advanced editor, excel, formula, highlighting, intellisense, office 365 by Ken Puls. If you're not on the Monthly Targeted channel, you'll need some patience, as it's coming. It's currently also been deployed to those on the Monthly Targeted channel running version 1907, build 11901.20080 or newer. This feature set hit the Insider build channel last month in version 1907. If you are on subscription, you get them with your regular updates. (That's another reason that - in my opinion - you should never buy another 4 digit numbered release of Excel ever again.) Sorry Excel 20, but my understanding is that these new features are only coming to subscription users. Here's a look at the syntax highlighting:Īnd here's what happens when we start manually adding a new step, which kicks in the Intellisense in the Advanced Editor window:įirst, you'll need to be on Office 365. Intellisense and Highlighting in the Advanced EditorĪnd finally, Intellisense and highlighting work in the Advanced Editor as well. Hard coded values (like 3) show up in green like data types, and text is showing in red. How about syntax highlighting? The formula here is only meant for demo purposes, but you get the idea of how it can look:īlue keywords for if, then, else. If I just click straight into the formula, bypassing the tab order, it doesn't seem to kick in.) Syntax Highlighting in Custom Columns (Now, to be fair, in my build of Excel, this feature only seems to consistently work if I rename the column first, then tab into the formula builder. Pretty sweet, as this actually starts to display the options. Here's a look at Intellisense working live as I started to build a column using a Text function: This is the place where I really wanted to see this happen. Unlike in the past, we now get a nice syntax popup box that tells us what needs to come next in this function. In this case the cursor is immediately after the opening parenthesis character. In addition, you can see Intellisense showing in the picture above as well. "Text" values are shown in red, keywords in blue, and data types in green: The first thing you should notice about the image below is that Excel now adds colour highlighting to the text in the formula bar. Intellisense and Highlighting in the Formula Bar Let's look at all three places that Intellisense and Highlighting are now exposed in Excel's Power Query. Where do Intellisense and Highlighting Show up? I'm super excited that Power Query Intellisense and Highlighting features are finally here in Excel! It's been a long time coming, with these features debuting in Power BI Desktop months ago.
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