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 ...

Many companies depend on up-to-date data to make informed decisions regarding their businesses. Millions of small businesses around the world use Microsoft Excel to input, analyze and evaluate ...

Discover the 4 Excel features that are changing data management forever—PivotTables, Power Query, Excel Tables, and Dynamic ...

In 2010, Microsoft added yet another technical term—Power Query—to Excel's long list of jargon, but it's not as complex as it ...

What’s the difference between a table and a range of columns and rows on an Excel spreadsheet? How do I create and populate tables? And, once a table is created, how do we custom filter, format, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you need to combine like-for-like datasets in several Excel worksheets into one table, don't waste time and risk making mistakes by doing this manually. Instead, use Excel's powerful Power Query ...

A new update is available for Office Insiders. The update brings support for creating custom data types with Power Query in PowerPoint. The update also brings support for text predictions within ...