You can enter data into a Microsoft Excel sheet or run a bit of M code in Microsoft Excel Power Query when you need to create a table. Updating data in a Microsoft Excel workbook is common, but you ...

Data comes from all kinds of sources and Microsoft Power Query can you when you need to combine foreign data. It’s a bit easier than trying to do so in Microsoft Excel sometimes. Microsoft Power Query ...

We've all been there: struggling with a nested Excel formula that breaks when your data shifts, or using Flash Fill only to find it missed half the rows. I stopped relying on those fragile workarounds ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft today announced that it is expanding Excel data types to allow for Power BI tables and custom, user-defined databases using Power Query to be transformed into linked data types. Microsoft ...

Web apps love exporting CSV files, but they don't always play nice with Excel. Leading zeros disappear, dates break, and text fields merge together. Most people waste time fixing these problems ...