At the end of every month, about 30 CSV files, one for each branch, pile up in a folder. I open the files, select all, copy, and paste them into a summary workbook. Doing this 30 times takes about 40 ...

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. Microsoft Power Query ...

Automate Budget vs Actuals variance analysis in Excel using Power Query and PivotTables — no formulas or code required. What ...

Years of accumulated files suddenly became patterns I could see, understand, investigate, and actually deal with.

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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.

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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. ...

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 ...