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A question sent in for our recent 'Ask Ken Anything' (AKA) session tackled a common reporting headache: how do you compare hours logged in a project management system against data from time-tracking software? 🕒 I walked through a solution I built using #PowerQuery and #PowerPivot. 🧵

Ken Puls, FCPA, MS MVP

@excelguru.ca

1️⃣ Clean both sources. 2️⃣ Replace "0:00:00" entries with nulls so empty records wouldn't clutter the #PivotTable. 3️⃣ Build shared employee and calendar tables 4️⃣ Write measures to calculate the variance. The breakthrough was one small step...

12/10/26, 5:12 pm0 reposts0 likes

Ken Puls, FCPA, MS MVP

@excelguru.ca

The time tracker stored durations, which turned into tiny decimals next to the project hours. Using Transform > Duration > Total Hours converted 5h 59m 50s into 5.997h, making the systems directly comparable. 🧭Takeaway: When time data won't compare cleanly, make sure you’re using a common data type!

Ken Puls, FCPA, MS MVP

@excelguru.ca

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