Microsoft announced some updates today to its preview version of Power BI for Office 365. Power BI is Microsoft's self-service business intelligence product that taps Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet ...

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 ...

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If you use Microsoft Excel for data analysis, youve probably discovered that it can become a complex beast. You used to have to learn complex functions and formulas, and dealing with massive amounts ...

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 ...

Security researchers have devised a method to abuse a legitimate Microsoft Excel technology named Power Query to run malicious code on users' systems with minimal interaction. Power Query is a data ...

Learn how to use Excel Power Query's extract and split column features to extract delimited strings into their components with this step-by-step tutorial. You might receive foreign data in the form of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft Office 2016 suite is now officially available for home and professional users. The overhaul of Microsoft's Office includes a focus on collaboration, mobility, leveraging the cloud, and ...