Have you ever stared at a beautifully organized table in Excel—rows and columns perfectly aligned—only to realize it’s a nightmare for analysis? Cross-tab layouts, while visually appealing, can feel ...

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.

Turn Excel into a lightweight data-science tool for cleaning datasets, standardizing dates, visualizing clusters, and ...

The company is adding some handy automation features to its web-based spreadsheet software. The company is adding some handy automation features to its web-based spreadsheet software. Microsoft has ...

Stop relying on manual clicks and clunky code—let Excel refresh your queries automatically.

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 ...

Want to get more out of Excel? At Microsoft’s inaugural Data Insights Summit last month, several experts offered a slew of suggestions for getting the most out of Excel 2016. Here are 10 of the best. ...