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

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 ...

Data cleaning is a crucial step in the data analysis process. Inaccurate, incomplete, or inconsistent data can lead to flawed insights and poor decision-making. Fortunately, Excel 365’s Power Query ...

Simplify your data transformation by skipping complex parsing expressions and instead using Flash Fill and Power Query in Microsoft Excel. Image: IB Photography/Adobe Stock If you work with imported ...

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 ...

Microsoft Power Query requires less specialized knowledge when trying to find duplicate records in a Microsoft Excel sheet. There are several ways to find duplicates in a Microsoft Excel sheet. 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 ...

Get & Transform in Excel can help you search for data sources, make connections, and shape that data in ways you deem fit. For instance, you can remove a column, change a data type, or merge tables.

Have you heard of Power Query in Microsoft Excel but always thought that it's only intended for Excel experts? Let me stop you there because, actually, Power Query is designed to be user-friendly and, ...

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 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.