is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is overhauling Excel with the ability to support custom live data ...

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 ...

If you are working with Excel spreadsheets or workbooks, juggling multiple tables of data, at some time you might need to combine them into one. Rather than spending hours manually copying and pasting ...

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

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 ...

Microsoft Excel’s Power Query tool is being highlighted in training to help users import, transform, and merge datasets from multiple sources without coding. The tool enables efficient data shaping, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn how simple M code tweaks in Power Query can help you handle missing columns, rank data flexibly, and fix Excel rounding ...