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 ...

Many people avoid Power Query because they think it's too technical, but it's actually one of the safest and easiest ways to organize your data. It handles the dirty work with an intuitive interface, ...

In Microsoft Excel, you don’t need an expression to calculate someone’s age – use Power Query to simplify the process. Calculating age requires a bit of specialized knowledge. Any expression you use ...

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, ...

Have you ever found yourself buried under a mountain of Excel sheets, each holding pieces of data that need to be stitched together into one cohesive whole? It’s a common challenge for anyone working ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...