Many people avoid Power Query because they think it's too technical, but it's actually one of the safest and easiest ways to organize your data. It handles the dirty work with an intuitive interface, ...

Power BI is a collection of software services, apps, and connectors that work together to turn your unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights. Once the data ...

Sometimes the current Microsoft Excel data structure doesn’t match requirements of other users and software. Learn how to combine columnar values into a single cell using Microsoft Excel’s Power Query ...

If you need a complete list of Microsoft Excel sheet names, Power Query is fast and generates a dynamic list. When a Microsoft Excel workbook contains a lot of sheets, the sheet tab you need is often ...

Microsoft has released an add-in for Microsoft Excel called Data Explorer. It is now called Microsoft Power Query. The free add-in has been designed to reduce your efforts in searching, shaping, and ...

Standard Excel tools can usually get the job done, but they often lack the resilience and flexibility needed for complex data and transformation tasks. Power Query doesn't just perform these tasks ...

Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system administration, network administration, and consulting roles. He ...

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 has some seriously powerful tools for data management, and they’re not as scary as they might seem. We learned this ourselves during our hands-on with the Complete Big Data & Power BI Bundle ...