Web queries offer a handy way to import data from selected tables into a worksheet–but Excel isn’t as accommodating as it should be, especially when it comes to parameters. These tricks will let you ...

Microsoft's Excel software is an indispensable tool for small businesses because of its flexibility and the ease with which you can set up spreadsheets. Though you can use it to manage files ...

Microsoft Excel’s Power Query tool is being highlighted in training to help users import, transform, and merge datasets from multiple sources without coding. The tool enables efficient data shaping, ...

HowToGeek has released a comprehensive guide on using Power Query in Excel to automate merging, appending, and consolidating datasets. The instructions cover importing from multiple sources, applying ...

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 ...

Learn how simple M code tweaks in Power Query can help you handle missing columns, rank data flexibly, and fix Excel rounding ...

Did you know that data analysts spend up to 80% of their time cleaning and preparing data? If you’re nodding in agreement, you’re not alone. The good news is that tools like Power Query in Excel and ...

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 ...

BigQuery is getting bigger. On Wednesday, Google announced that it has added two new features to its BigQuery functionality, which provides the ability to analyze Big Data in the cloud. A new BigQuery ...

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 ...