Years of accumulated files suddenly became patterns I could see, understand, investigate, and actually deal with.

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 ...

Excel’s vast functionality can often feel overwhelming, but mastering a few essential techniques can make a significant ...

Automate Budget vs Actuals variance analysis in Excel using Power Query and PivotTables — no formulas or code required. What ...

At the end of every month, about 30 CSV files, one for each branch, pile up in a folder. I open the files, select all, copy, and paste them into a summary workbook. Doing this 30 times takes about 40 ...

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 ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a sprawling Excel workbook, wondering if you’re using the right tool for the job? Between Power Query, Power Pivot, and VBA, it’s easy to feel like you’re ...

Have a complex Excel problem? Power Query to the rescue! Analyzing data often means spending more time getting and cleaning up data than analyzing it. If that describes you, definitely review Excel ...

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 ...

Microsoft Excel queries retrieve information from tables of data. For example, your business may store staff sales figures in an Access database. To chart the performance of your most productive staff ...