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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever found yourself endlessly clicking through repetitive steps in Excel, wishing there was a way to make the process smarter and faster? While Power Query is a fantastic option for ...

How to create and populate a table in Microsoft Excel’s Power Query Your email has been sent Updating data in a Microsoft Excel workbook is common, but you will run into cases where you can replace ...

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 ...

Power Query often automatically adds a ‘Change Type’ step after loading data to try and assign data types to columns based on the first 1,000 rows. If your data includes inconsistent types, such as ...

Q: My book on Excel 97 explains how to download information from a website directly into Excel using a Web Query. Is it possible to use the Web Query facility in Excel with the IC site? A: Yes. The ...