Replace manual Excel tasks with conditional columns, smart merging, the unpivot tool, and more.

How to combine data ranges with Microsoft Power Query in Excel Your email has been sent Microsoft Power Query showed up in Excel 2016, though earlier versions can ...

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 ...

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 ...

Speed up Power Query from SharePoint by swapping SharePoint.Files for SharePoint.Contents, cutting refresh from 44.6s to ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is overhauling Excel with the ability to support custom live data types.

Once data is loaded into Excel, Copilot allows users to ask questions in natural language instead of building new formulas.