Have you ever stared at a beautifully organized table in Excel—rows and columns perfectly aligned—only to realize it’s a nightmare for analysis? Cross-tab layouts, while visually appealing, can feel ...

Microsoft Excel for analysts skills include Power Query to trim spaces and merge columns, so you automate cleaning steps and ...

New columns are always added to the right edge of the dataset. Simply click and drag a column by its header to move it. Also, ...

AddPowerQuery Adds a connection using power query. This requires a connection string using the Microsoft.Mashup.OleDb.1 provider and a M-Formula to describe the data source. AddDatabase Adds a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To enter data in Excel, you can either type it in or import it from different sources. It’s easy to import data from a standard .CSV format, but what about importing it from a database? You can ...