Have you ever found yourself staring at a massive spreadsheet, wondering how to extract just the right information without getting lost in a sea of data? Whether you’re a seasoned Excel user or just ...

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 make it easier to pull a .csv or .txt file directly into Excel without having to deal with Power Query, Microsoft is introducing two new import functions. Microsoft is making two new Import ...

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 comes from all kinds of sources and Microsoft Power Query can you when you need to combine foreign data. It’s a bit easier than trying to do so in Microsoft Excel sometimes. Microsoft Power Query ...

Grabbing data from the internet is much easier when you skip the coding part.

Microsoft’s April 2026 Excel update expands Copilot with interactive editing, planning modes, Python integration, and improved iOS comments, marking a deeper shift toward AI-driven workflows.