Have you ever found yourself staring at a massive spreadsheet, wondering how to extract just the right information without getting lost in a sea of data? Whether you’re a seasoned Excel user or just ...

Replace repetitive copy-paste work by automatically combining, joining, and importing data directly inside Excel.

Using the External Data Connection feature in Excel, you can acquire information from external sources, such as Access and SQL Server. The data remains stored at its original source, but the data ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a sprawling Excel workbook, wondering if you’re using the right tool for the job? Between Power Query, Power Pivot, and VBA, it’s easy to feel like you’re ...

Conditional formatting highlights cell-level differences, while Power Query reveals structural changes across entire datasets ...

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 ...

A super easy way to generate new records from multi-value columns using Excel Power Query Your email has been sent Have a complex Excel problem? Power Query to the rescue! Analyzing data often means ...

Microsoft Excel queries retrieve information from tables of data. For example, your business may store staff sales figures in an Access database. To chart the performance of your most productive staff ...

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 ...

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 ...