Happy Leap Year Day! According to my calculations, the next time that Leap Year Day falls on a Monday will be in 2044. By then, Excel will be 58 years old. Do you think that Excel will still be around, or will it have retired early?

Le年快乐！ 根据我的计算，Le年将在下一次星期一发生在2044年。到那时，Excel将诞生58岁。 您是否认为Excel仍然存在，或者它会提前退休？

This week, cool tricks with the new TEXTJOIN function, tell a story with your charts, create a calendar for Power Query, and more.

本周，使用新的TEXTJOIN函数进行有趣的技巧，使用图表讲故事，为Power Query创建日历等。

1.计算唯一项目 (1. Count Unique Items)

Roger Govier explains how to set up a pivot table in Excel 2013 or later, so you can show a Distinct Count. For example, if there were 100 orders, how many distinct (unique) products were sold?

Roger Govier解释了如何在Excel 2013或更高版本中设置数据透视表，因此您可以显示Distinct Count 。 例如，如果有100个订单，则售出了多少种独特的(独特的)产品？

2.理解图表 (2. Making Sense of Charts)

The Science Goddess used a new type of chart at a recent education workshop, and was fascinated by the participants' reactions. She also collected their feedback in a unique way, to take a look at her blog post, to learn what happened.

科学女神在最近的一次教育研讨会上使用了一种新型图表，并对参与者的React着迷。 她还以独特的方式收集了他们的反馈，以查看她的博客文章 ，以了解发生了什么。

Mynda Treacy shows a few alternatives to using radar charts. For example, you can use data bars, bar charts or Sparklines.

Mynda Treacy显示了一些使用雷达图的替代方法 。 例如，您可以使用数据条，条形图或迷你图。

In another charting article, Ann K. Emery asks if you'll present the data as-is, or if you'll tell a story. She shows four examples of how to use a storytelling approach in a chart.

在另一篇图表文章中，安·K·埃默里(Ann K. Emery)询问您是按原样显示数据还是讲故事。 她展示了四个如何在图表中使用叙事方法的示例。

3.资源清单 (3. Resource List)

If you're in the mood to learn a few new things, Ben Collins shares his list of Data Analytics resources. There are several sections, including Excel, SQL, statistics and Data Visualization.

如果您想学习一些新知识，请Ben Collins分享他的Data Analytics资源列表 。 有几个部分，包括Excel，SQL，统计信息和数据可视化。

4.计算日期 (4. Calculating Dates)

Your need calendars when you're working with Power Query, and Bob Phillips shows how to calculate all the bank holidays for a specific year, and how to calculate the trickiest holiday of all – Easter.

使用Power Query时需要日历，而Bob Phillips展示了如何计算特定年份的所有银行假期 ，以及如何计算最棘手的假期-Easter 。

(If you need to calculate Easter dates in Excel, there's a page on my website.)

(如果您需要在Excel中计算复活节日期， 我的网站上会有一个页面 。)

5. TEXTJOIN (5. TEXTJOIN)

Chris Webb has found an interesting use for the new TEXTJOIN function in Excel 2016. He created a formula that shows a comma delimited list of the items selected in a Slicer.

克里斯·韦伯(Chris Webb)在Excel 2016中发现了新的TEXTJOIN函数的有趣用法。他创建了一个公式，该公式显示以逗号分隔的切片器中选定项目的列表 。

In a short video, Mike "ExcelIsFun" Girvin shows how to use TEXTJOIN to return multiple values for a lookup, in a single cell. In the data, there are three items with the same invoice number, and the formula returns all three, separated with semi-colons. Very cool!

在短片中，Mike“ ExcelIsFun” Girvin演示了如何使用TEXTJOIN在单个单元格中为查找返回多个值 。 在数据中，有三个具有相同发票编号的项目，该公式返回所有三个项目，并用分号分隔。 很酷！

6. Excel幽默 (6. Excel Humour)

Finally, for a bit of spreadsheet humour, you can see what people are saying about Excel, in my weekly collection of tweets. Here's one of my favourite tweets from this week's collection.

最后，对于电子表格的一些幽默，您可以在我的每周推文集中看到人们对Excel 的评价 。 这是本周收藏中我最喜欢的推文之一。

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若要通过电子邮件获取Excel新闻和提示，请为Contextures Excel新闻通讯添加名称。