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Power Apps

Build Your First Power App in 30 Minutes

Power Apps is Microsoft’s low-code platform for building custom business apps without writing code. With Power Apps you can even turn an Excel spreadsheet into a mobile or web app with drag‑and‑drop ease. In this guide we’ll walk through a simple step-by-step example to build a basic canvas app, polish the look-and-feel, and then publish it. Finally, we’ll show how to embed this app into a Power BI report. Along the way, you’ll get tips and tricks so that even if you’ve never coded before, you can follow along and have a working app in about half an hour.

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Power BI

How Microsoft Purview Helps Govern Power BI: A Simple Guide

Data leaders need a scalable solution that provides a single source of truth for Power BI assets, automates classification, and enforces policies without crippling self-service BI. When ownership of Power BI assets is unclear, confidence in the data deteriorates, errors occur, and compliance is jeopardized.

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Power BI

Natural Language Queries (NLQ) in Power BI: The Future of Self-Service BI

Imagine typing a question like “What were our top-performing products last quarter?” and instantly seeing a chart that answers your question. Power BI’s Q&A feature makes this possible by letting anyone query data in plain English. It’s built into Power BI and uses AI-powered natural language processing to translate your questions into data queries.

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ChatGPT

How to use GPT-5 and Deneb for Custom Power BI Visuals: Late Delivery Risk Diagnostics

Timely delivery is a critical metric in supply chain operations; late shipments can affect customer satisfaction, loyalty and impact revenue. Identifying and reducing late deliveries can significantly boost customer retention and reduce acquisition costs.

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Microsoft Word

How to Do a Mail Merge in Microsoft Word (via Outlook): A Step-by-Step Guide

Mail merge is a powerful feature that allows you to send personalized emails to a large number of recipients without manually typing each message. While Outlook is your email client, the mail merge process is primarily driven by Microsoft Word, which then leverages Outlook to send the emails.