https://www.indiainvestments.wiki/excel/Recent content in Excel for Fun and Profit on r/IndiaInvestments WikiHugoen-inhttps://www.indiainvestments.wiki/excel/reactivity/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://www.indiainvestments.wiki/excel/reactivity/<h1 id="reactive-ui--updates">Reactive UI &amp; Updates</h1> <h2 id="intro">Intro</h2> <p>Consider a sample receipt from your local <em>kirana</em> store, that looks like this</p> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Item</th> <th>Qty</th> <th>Price</th> <th>Total</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Apple</td> <td>3</td> <td>20.00</td> <td>60.00</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Egg</td> <td>12</td> <td>5.00</td> <td>60.00</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Milk</td> <td>2</td> <td>76.00</td> <td>152.00</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Onion</td> <td>20</td> <td>7.00</td> <td>140.00</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Total</strong></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td><strong>412.00</strong></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>In real stores, they won’t issue receipts with four columns. But for the sake of this discussion; let’s assume they do provide such detailed tabulation.</p> <p>Your task is to find out if the tally is correct.</p>https://www.indiainvestments.wiki/excel/using-external-data-google-finance/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://www.indiainvestments.wiki/excel/using-external-data-google-finance/<h1 id="using-external-data--google-finance">Using External Data : Google Finance</h1> <h2 id="intro">Intro</h2> <p>Almost all popular Excel-compatible applications, such as MS Excel or Google Sheets etc., allow <em>programmatically</em> fetching data from external sources.</p> <p>What are external sources, in this context?</p> <p>Anything external to your Excel sheet, is an external resource. It can be a database, another excel workbook, a file with data in it (CSV format), or an API endpoint out there on the internet.</p> <p><a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/import-data-from-external-data-sources-power-query-be4330b3-5356-486c-a168-b68e9e616f5a">MS Excel offers in-built <em>Get Data</em> tool</a> to just copy-paste an endpoint URL, and fetch data from that.</p>