Have you ever found yourself drowning in a sea of messy spreadsheets, spending hours manually cleaning and organizing data? For many Excel users, this is a frustratingly familiar scenario. But what if ...

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 ...

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 you heard of Power Query in Microsoft Excel but always thought that it's only intended for Excel experts? Let me stop you there because, actually, Power Query is designed to be user-friendly and, ...

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 ...

How to generate a list of Microsoft Excel sheet names by exposing Power Query metadata Your email has been sent When a Microsoft Excel workbook contains a lot of sheets, the sheet tab you need is ...

Excel's text functions, such as TRIM, UPPER, LOWER, and PROPER, can be used to clean up textual data. TRIM removes extra ...