What if you could turn the tedious task of combining transaction files into a quick and easy process? With Power Query in Excel 365, you can do just that. This powerful tool allows you to merge files ...

From hidden rows to sheet protection passwords, Excel's "privacy" features are easily bypassed—encryption and deletion are much more watertight.

Merge lists even with typos and inconsistent names. Tune the similarity threshold, use a transform table, and audit results ...

Have you ever spent hours wrestling with messy spreadsheets, trying to clean up data that just won’t cooperate? Or maybe you’ve found yourself manually merging files, painstakingly copying and pasting ...

PowerQuery is a powerful tool in Excel that allows you to import, clean, and analyze data from various sources. One of the key features of PowerQuery is its ability to refresh data automatically, ...

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’s January 2026 update puts Excel back in the spotlight. After a brief pause late last year, the company has resumed its monthly feature recap, and thi ...

Microsoft updates for Excel in January 2026 introduce Agent Mode with Copilot, new import tools, clearer error messages, Power Query on Mac and Web, and Office Scripts automation to ease daily tasks.

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 ...

In this post, we will show you how to reorder multiple columns in Power Query with Drag & Drop. Often when importing data from various sources, columns may not be in the desired order. Reordering ...