Instead of opening every report and manually copying the data into a master workbook, I connect Power Query to the folder ...

We've all been there: struggling with a nested Excel formula that breaks when your data shifts, or using Flash Fill only to find it missed half the rows. I stopped relying on those fragile workarounds ...

The task of compiling monthly sales data or billing data into Excel.Opening files one by one, copying the necessary ranges, ...

Power Query, formulas and PivotTables each play a unique role in Excel workflows, addressing different stages of data handling and analysis. Power Query is designed for data preparation, such as ...

When working with address data, you may encounter situations where you need to merge multiple columns, such as address, town, and postcode, into a single column. Power Query makes this task a breeze.

When you clean data with Power Query, you can load the results into an Excel sheet. From there, you can summarize it with a ...

Data comes from all kinds of sources and Microsoft Power Query can you when you need to combine foreign data. It’s a bit easier than trying to do so in Microsoft Excel sometimes. Microsoft Power Query ...

Q. There was a December 2020 article in the JofA about cleaning and joining data using a program called Alteryx, but we don’t have access to this program. Could you explain how to do those tasks using ...

Excel's built-in features cover most jobs, but these five free add-ins make everything from date entry to data analysis easier.

The January 2017 JofA article “Data Mining Your General Ledger With Excel” presents a step-by-step, formula-based approach to extracting general ledger data and then scrubbing them so that they can be ...