When working with address data, you may encounter situations where you need to merge multiple columns, such as address, town, and postcode, into a single column. Power Query makes this task a breeze.

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 ...

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

Do you often feel like you are spending more time managing your data in Excel than actually analyzing it? I get it. For years, I navigated spreadsheets with the same basic tools. That was until I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...