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 ...

Any null values will show as blank cells in the final Excel table. If you'd prefer to fix this within the Power Query Editor, ...

Discover 17 new Excel features and functions for 2026, so you track edits and data faster. Including auto-refreshing pivots ...

Handle millions of rows by loading queries into Power Pivot, building relationships, and creating measures for fast variance ...

Microsoft adds IMPORTTEXT and IMPORTCSV to Excel, letting users pull text files directly into the grid with simple formulas.

If you've ever wished Excel could handle text patterns the way Python or JavaScript does, these functions deliver exactly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...