Have you ever spent hours wrestling with messy spreadsheets, trying to clean up data that just won’t cooperate? Or maybe you’ve found yourself manually merging files, painstakingly copying and pasting ...

Did you know that data analysts spend up to 80% of their time cleaning and preparing data? If you’re nodding in agreement, you’re not alone. The good news is that tools like Power Query in Excel and ...

Learn how to use Excel Power Query's extract and split column features to extract delimited strings into their components with this step-by-step tutorial. You might receive foreign data in the form of ...

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 ...

How to combine data ranges with Microsoft Power Query in Excel Your email has been sent Microsoft Power Query showed up in Excel 2016, though earlier versions can ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

In order to be able to use Excel’s PDF importer feature, you must first connect a PDF document to the Excel spreadsheet you are working on. Following are the steps that will guide Office 365 users on ...