Power Query replaces risky and time-consuming manual edits with a safe, user-friendly system that speeds up everyday ...

Stop losing your manual Excel edits during data updates with this guide to preserving custom columns in Power Query.

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

Power Query and Power Pivot help Excel users manage large datasets more efficiently. Power Query focuses on cleaning and preparing data, while Power Pivot handles analysis and reporting. Together, ...

Power Query caches metadata (file lists, folder structures) from SharePoint to improve performance. When you connect via From SharePoint Folder, Power Query stores a local snapshot of the library’s ...

To make it easier to pull a .csv or .txt file directly into Excel without having to deal with Power Query, Microsoft is introducing two new import functions. Microsoft is making two new Import ...

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that prevents some users from opening Excel email attachments in the new Outlook client. According to a service alert (EX1189359) seen by BleepingComputer ...

The new ‘COPILOT’ function uses AI to generate summaries, tags, tables, and more based on a group of cells. The new ‘COPILOT’ function uses AI to generate summaries, tags, tables, and more based on a ...

Microsoft Excel’s new COPILOT function lets users generate, summarize, and analyze data directly in spreadsheet cells using plain-language prompts. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft is building generative ...

Data wonks, rejoice! Pivot tables now automatically refresh themselves in a new beta version of Microsoft Excel. You might expect that pivot tables—which can be used to summarize rows and columns of ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...