To enter data in Excel, you can either type it in or import it from different sources. It’s easy to import data from a standard .CSV format, but what about importing it from a database? You can ...

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 ...

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 ...

Excel is more than just a spreadsheet tool; it is a comprehensive platform for data analysis and business intelligence. By using its advanced tools—Power Query, Power Pivot, and DAX—you can elevate ...

Originally, Excel was not designed to be a real database. Its early database functions were limited in quantity and in quality. And because every record in an Excel database is visible on the screen ...

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 ...

Web queries offer a handy way to import data from selected tables into a worksheet--but Excel isn't as accommodating as it should be, especially when it comes to parameters. These tricks will let you ...

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 ...