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.

Originally, Excel was not designed to be a real database. Its early database functions were limited in quantity and in quality. And because every record in an Excel database is visible on the screen ...

At the end of the month, you open multiple Excel files, copy sales data, sum it up by department, and compare it with last ...

Have a complex Excel problem? Power Query to the rescue! Analyzing data often means spending more time getting and cleaning up data than analyzing it. If that describes you, definitely review Excel ...

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 ...

To enter data in Excel, you can either type it in or import it from different sources. It’s easy to import data from a standard .CSV format, but what about importing it from a database? You can ...

Web queries offer a handy way to import data from selected tables into a worksheet–but Excel isn’t as accommodating as it should be, especially when it comes to parameters. These tricks will let you ...

Microsoft has restarted its monthly feature round-up, detailing how Excel changed during January 2026 across Windows, Mac, and the web. The headline upgrade is Agent ...