Excel is a powerhouse at transforming and manipulating data, thanks to a wide variety of Excel formulas and in-app tools. Add ...

In this post, we will show you how to reorder multiple columns in Power Query with Drag & Drop. Often when importing data from various sources, columns may not be in the desired order. Reordering ...

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 ...

Have you ever stared at a tangled web of paired columns in your dataset—”Size 1/Value 1,” “Size 2/Value 2,” and so on, wondering how to make sense of it all? It’s a common frustration for anyone ...

Simplify your data transformation by skipping complex parsing expressions and instead using Flash Fill and Power Query in Microsoft Excel. Image: IB Photography/Adobe Stock If you work with imported ...

Have you ever found yourself drowning in a sea of messy spreadsheets, spending hours manually cleaning and organizing data? For many Excel users, this is a frustratingly familiar scenario. But what if ...

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. ...

Get & Transform in Excel can help you search for data sources, make connections, and shape that data in ways you deem fit. For instance, you can remove a column, change a data type, or merge tables.