Any null values will show as blank cells in the final Excel table. If you'd prefer to fix this within the Power Query Editor, ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a sprawling Excel workbook, wondering if you’re using the right tool for the job? Between Power Query, Power Pivot, and VBA, it’s easy to feel like you’re ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has released an add-in for Microsoft Excel called Data Explorer. It is now called Microsoft Power Query. The free add-in has been designed to reduce your efforts in searching, shaping, and ...

Microsoft Excel is getting two new functions for importing data from other files, without the need to use Power Query or ...

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 ...

Microsoft adds IMPORTTEXT and IMPORTCSV to Excel, letting users pull text files directly into the grid with simple formulas.

Excel now supports IMPORTTEXT and IMPORTCSV functions that load external text and CSV files as dynamic arrays, making it ...

Organizations now have one more reason to pay attention to the security settings of their Microsoft Office applications. Researchers at Mimecast have developed a working proof of concept that shows ...