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 sounds. In fact, once you get started, it's not too steep a ...

This guide is intended for readers who are new to Microsoft Excel or Power Query. The tips don't require you to know or use any Power Query M formula language, and they offer a good starting point ...

Fortunately, Excel 365’s Power Query offers a suite of powerful tools to streamline the data cleaning process, allowing you to efficiently prepare your data for analysis.

Power Query Copilot is redefining how you manage and analyze data in Excel. By using AI-driven automation, this innovative tool simplifies tasks such as importing, synchronizing, and analyzing ...

Highlighting or even deleting duplicate records in Excel is simple but listing them isn't as easy. Fortunately, you can use Power Query to easily display a list of duplicate values or records.

To chart the performance of your most productive staff, Excel can run a query and paste a selection of the Access table into your spreadsheet. Queries use autofilter drop-down boxes rather than ...

Use INDEX and MATCH for simple database queries in Excel The bigger your spreadsheet, the more you need these, which you can combine with SUM, AVERAGE, and MAX to refine your searches.

Excel provides a handy feature called Enable Background Refresh in Power Query’s properties. This feature keeps updating imported external data continuously while you may work on other worksheets.

Web queries offer a handy way to import data from selected tables into a worksheet--but Excel isn't as accommodating as it should be, especially when it comes to parameters. These tricks will let ...

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.