Excel is a powerhouse at transforming and manipulating data, thanks to a wide variety of Excel formulas and in-app tools. Add Power Query to this already powerful mix, and you get an even more ...

Excel doesn’t have a direct equivalent. To achieve the same result, you’d either have to piece together complex formulas with functions like SEARCH or write custom VBA scripts. While those approaches ...

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 ...

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 spent hours wrestling with messy spreadsheets, trying to clean up data that just won’t cooperate? Or maybe you’ve found yourself manually merging files, painstakingly copying and pasting ...

Have you ever found yourself buried under a mountain of Excel sheets, each holding pieces of data that need to be stitched together into one cohesive whole? It’s a common challenge for anyone working ...

Q. How do I use the FILTER function in Excel, and how is this an improvement over the filter feature? A. The FILTER function was introduced five years ago as part of the Excel Dynamic Arrays rollout.

What’s the difference between a table and a range of columns and rows on an Excel spreadsheet? How do I create and populate tables? And, once a table is created, how do we custom filter, format, and ...

We know that we can set filters on columns and filter the data with just a click in Microsoft Excel. It can be done by clicking on the ‘Filter’ under the “Data” tab. Apart from just filtering the data ...

To do that, select the Data tab, highlight the table, and click From Table/Range in the Get & Transform Data command group of the ribbon. In the Power Query editor, select the columns you want to ...