Instead of tedious hands-on repairs, Excel lets you quickly clean, reshape, and combine CSV files through repeatable Power Query steps.

Have you ever felt like importing data into Excel is more complicated than it needs to be? Below My Online Training Hub walks through how Microsoft’s latest Excel functions, `IMPORTCSV` and ...

What if you could turn the tedious task of combining transaction files into a quick and easy process? With Power Query in Excel 365, you can do just that. This powerful tool allows you to merge files ...

Microsoft Excel has an import wizard, but if you structure the text correctly, you can bypass the wizard altogether. We don’t open foreign files with Microsoft Excel—or do we? When importing a .txt or ...

If you have a list of items in a text file and you want to import data from a text file into Microsoft Excel, you can do that without writing them manually. An option in Excel allows users to import ...

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 ...

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 ...

Power Query is a game-changer in terms of the amount of time I save, ensuring imported data is ready for analysis in Excel. If you're new to this tool, it's helpful to know a few commands that can ...

Sometimes the current Microsoft Excel data structure doesn’t match requirements of other users and software. Learn how to combine columnar values into a single cell using Microsoft Excel’s Power Query ...