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How to have fun pixellating and reconstructing images in VBA
Posted by Andy Brown on 25 August 2020
You can have great fun taking your favourite image (a picture of your loved one?) and pixellating it in VBA. The results are stored as RGB numbers in a workbook - what you do with them then is up to you!
An overview of what Power Apps is and does, for beginners
Posted by Andy Brown on 25 August 2020
What IS Power Apps? In this blog we try to convey the essence of this enjoyable product, so you can make the decision of whether to invest in it.
A trainer's experience of giving the first Wise Owl classroom course in 4 months
Posted by Andy Brown on 24 August 2020
What was it like giving the first classroom course for Wise Owl since the middle of March? There were good and bad points, as this blog explains.
There are no significant changes to Power BI in the August 2020 update
Posted by Andy Brown on 22 August 2020
Notwithstanding an update blog from Microsoft, there are no interesting new Power BI Desktop features to report this month (in our humble opinon).
Our July 2020 competition was won by Matthew Palmer - here are the answers!
Posted by Andy Brown on 22 August 2020
Congratulations to Matthew Palmer for winning last month's codeword competition - here are the answers!
Our August 2020 Newsletter Competition - painting by numbers
Posted by Andy Brown on 22 August 2020
Someone has thoughtfully deconstructed a picture into its red, green and blue component parts - your task is to put it back together!
A correction - report tooltips can be any size in a Power BI report
Posted by Andy Brown on 08 August 2020
Sadly we do occasionally make mistakes in our training, but when this happens we always try to correct them. Here, we explain that Power BI report page tooltips can in fact be any size.
Karen Webber of Goodness Marketing interviews Wise Owl's Andy Brown
Posted by Andy Brown on 23 July 2020
As Wise Owl's marketing guru for the last 15 months (and counting), Karen has got to know us pretty well. Here she interviews Andy Brown to find what makes him (and Wise Owl) tick.
Our website gets a revamped search facility
Posted by Andy Brown on 23 July 2020
We've rewritten our search results page so that it's actually useful, as this short blog explains.
Happy 5th birthday to Power BI Desktop!
Posted by Andy Brown on 23 July 2020
Power BI Desktop went on general release on 24th July 2015. This short blog looks back nostalgically at milestones for both Power BI and Wise Owl.
Results of June 2020 Competition - Coronavirus Mini-Sagas
Posted by Andy Brown on 23 July 2020
Out of an impressive field of entries, this month's competition winner is Ray Jennings. Read the sagas yourself to see if you agree with the editor's decision!
Wise Owl Newsletter Competition - July 2020
Posted by Andy Brown on 23 July 2020
Solve our codeword then answer the secret riddle to enter the draw to win this month's prize!
Changes in the July 2020 update to Power BI Desktop
Posted by Andy Brown on 23 July 2020
This month's modest update allows you to use Excel financial functions in DAX, show a gradient legend and change your slicer header, among other minor changes.
5 horrible SQL jokes and one puzzle
Posted by Sam Lowrie on 22 July 2020
Sam has a terrible sense of humour which is all too often inflicted on his delegates. Sadly, with this blog, on website viewers too ...
Including deleted emails in your Outlook searches
Posted by Andy Brown on 03 July 2020
Did you know that Outlook doesn't include your Deleted Items folder by default when you search? This owl didn't until today!
The answer to the word search puzzle from our May 2020 newsletter
Posted by Andy Brown on 28 June 2020
This month's puzzle was won by Linda Waterworth, who correctly found all 44 missing Beatles' songs and identified the hidden quotation revealed by the unused letters.
Changes for the June 2020 update of Power BI Desktop
Posted by Andy Brown on 28 June 2020
This month's update doesn't include many changes - the biggest being probably the emergence of the hierarchical slicer from preview.
Our June 2020 competition: write a mini-saga containing exactly 50 words
Posted by Andy Brown on 28 June 2020
For this month's competition we invite you to summarise your thoughts or experiences of the last three months of lockdown using exactly 50 words.
Should you use JavaScript or VBA to program in Excel?
Posted by Andy Brown on 28 June 2020
Is JavaScript for Office (also known as OFFICE-JS) the next big thing? Unless you're a full-time web developer, emphatically no - this blog gives 3 reasons why you should continue to write your Office programs in humble VBA.
Retrieving past items from your clipboard using clipboard history
Posted by Andy Brown on 28 June 2020
Windows now lets you retrieve up to the last 25 things you've copied. It does this by keeping a clipboard history, from which you can paste items with a single keystroke.