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 ...

If you are working with Excel spreadsheets or workbooks, juggling multiple tables of data, at some time you might need to combine them into one. Rather than spending hours manually copying and pasting ...

Overview:  Confused between Power Query and Power Pivot? These two Excel tools serve completely different purposes but work ...

When you want to combine values in Microsoft Excel, instead of complex expressions or VBA, opt for Power Query – it’s fast and easy. My TechRepublic article How to combine values from a column into a ...

Standard Excel lookups are perfectionists that fail on typos or extra spaces. While you could hack a solution using nested XLOOKUP, TRIM, and LOWER functions, it's brittle and hard to maintain. Power ...

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 ...

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 ...

Data is rarely properly formatted and structured when you import it. Try these eight tips for fast data cleanup in Microsoft Excel. Data comes in from an increasing number of sources these days. For ...