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 ...

If you spend Mondays copying data from email attachments into a "Master" sheet, you're not working in Excel—you're doing manual labor. Power Query fixes that. Master these three core data ...

Data cleaning is a crucial step in the data analysis process. Inaccurate, incomplete, or inconsistent data can lead to flawed insights and poor decision-making. Fortunately, Excel 365’s Power Query ...

Have you ever faced the frustration of trying to combine multiple Excel files, only to realize their sheet names don’t match? It’s a common headache for anyone working with data from varied sources.

Microsoft Power Query requires less specialized knowledge when trying to find duplicate records in a Microsoft Excel sheet. There are several ways to find duplicates in a Microsoft Excel sheet. You ...

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 ...

Sometimes the current Microsoft Excel data structure doesn’t match requirements of other users and software. Learn how to combine columnar values into a single cell using Microsoft Excel’s Power Query ...

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 ...