Microsoft updates for Excel in January 2026 introduce Agent Mode with Copilot, new import tools, clearer error messages, Power Query on Mac and Web, and Office Scripts automation to ease daily tasks.

Microsoft’s January 2026 update puts Excel back in the spotlight. After a brief pause late last year, the company has resumed its monthly feature recap, and thi ...

Microsoft Excel: How to use Power Query to display a list of duplicate values or records Your email has been sent Whether duplicate records are good or bad depends on specific conventions that you ...

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 ...

How to generate a list of Microsoft Excel sheet names by exposing Power Query metadata Your email has been sent When a Microsoft Excel workbook contains a lot of sheets, the sheet tab you need is ...

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 ...

Data is rarely properly formatted and structured when you import it. Try these eight tips for fast data cleanup in Microsoft Excel. Data comes in from an increasing number of sources these days. For ...

Cloud collaboration, macro security, and new tools like Office Scripts, Power Query, and Python are pushing VBA to the ...