Microsoft's Excel software is an indispensable tool for small businesses because of its flexibility and the ease with which you can set up spreadsheets. Though you can use it to manage files ...

Use Power Query's M language to quickly fix names, remove hidden characters, extract numbers, and merge columns.

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.

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 ...

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 broken brackets in Excel with clear, flexible Power Query rules that handle real-world data effortlessly.

PowerQuery is a powerful tool in Excel that allows you to import, clean, and analyze data from various sources. One of the key features of PowerQuery is its ability to refresh data automatically, ...

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Use Excel’s MS Query Wizard to query Access databases Your email has been sent Don't have access to Access? You can use Excel to open the database you want, using the MS Query Wizard. Here's how to ...

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 ...

So many cool Fabric features get announced at Fabcon that it’s easy to miss some of them. The fact that you can now not only generate Excel files from Fabric Dataflows Gen2, but that you have so much ...