Data comes from all kinds of sources and Microsoft Power Query can you when you need to combine foreign data. It’s a bit easier than trying to do so in Microsoft Excel sometimes.

Use Excel’s “Get Data from Folder” feature to import and combine multiple trial balance files into a single query. Clean and transform data using Power Query to prepare it for analysis.

Speed up Power Query with List.Buffer. Cache lists, cut recalculation, and slash refresh times for large datasets in Excel and Power BI.

To pull data from another sheet in Excel, use cell references, use the VLOOKUP function, or use the INDEX and MATCH functions.

If you have multiple tables in separate Excel worksheets, providing they have the same column headers, you can use Power Query to stack the data into a single table.

A shared Microsoft 365 Lists list is more valuable if you can use it to update source data in Microsoft Excel.

I ’ve always used Excel for quick calculations and simple tables. But aside from common formulas and basic data manipulation ...

How to Export or Import Data from Excel to Google Sheets You can link Google Sheets with Microsoft Excel by creating a web query in Excel.

The query gets just the information you want from Oracle -- customer lists, stock numbers or sales records -- and prepares an Excel spreadsheet file from the data.

To create data bars in Excel, select your cells and then choose data bars from Conditional Formatting.