Power Query Copilot is redefining how you manage and analyze data in Excel. By using AI-driven automation, this innovative tool simplifies tasks such as importing, synchronizing, and analyzing data ...

Have you ever found yourself endlessly clicking through repetitive steps in Excel, wishing there was a way to make the process smarter and faster? While Power Query is a fantastic option for ...

Microsoft Office is more than the sum of its parts—you can link an Excel database table to an Access database, integrating your data and adding value. Here's how. You don’t have to import an 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 ...

Web query files are spreadsheets that Microsoft Excel creates using data from Web pages. For example, if your business wants to analyze stock data, a Web query can extract such data from a financial ...

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 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 ...

Standard Excel tools can usually get the job done, but they often lack the resilience and flexibility needed for complex data and transformation tasks. Power Query doesn't just perform these tasks ...

Standard Excel lookups are perfectionists that fail on typos or extra spaces. While you could hack a solution using nested XLOOKUP, TRIM, and LOWER functions, it's brittle and hard to maintain. Power ...