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 ...

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 ...

Have you heard of Power Query in Microsoft Excel but always thought that it's only intended for Excel experts? Let me stop you there because, actually, Power Query is designed to be user-friendly and, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When working with address data, you may encounter situations where you need to merge multiple columns, such as address, town, and postcode, into a single column. Power Query makes this task a breeze.

Microsoft Excel queries retrieve information from tables of data. For example, your business may store staff sales figures in an Access database. To chart the performance of your most productive staff ...

A super easy way to generate new records from multi-value columns using Excel Power Query Your email has been sent Have a complex Excel problem? Power Query to the rescue! Analyzing data often means ...