Why it matters: Automation reduces manual work, minimizes errors, and frees you up for higher-value tasks, boosting productivity across personal and business workflows. Where to start: Begin with ...

Excel is more than just a spreadsheet tool; it is a comprehensive platform for data analysis and business intelligence. By using its advanced tools—Power Query, Power Pivot, and DAX—you can elevate ...

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 ...

Hidden Excel powers: Tools like Power Query, Flash Fill, and dynamic arrays can automate data cleanup, analysis, and transformation without external AI help. Automate tab magic: Office Scripts and ...

PowerQuery is a powerful tool in Excel that allows you to import, clean, and analyze data from various sources. One of the key features of PowerQuery is its ability to refresh data automatically, ...

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 ...

If the boss wants to review a Microsoft Excel report every day at the same time, don’t worry: You can use a Power Automate flow to automatically send that report on time. My article How to use Windows ...

A lot of what we do with computers is repetitive. We put files in folders, we send form replies to emails, we make commits to git when we save files, we trigger tests when we build an application.

Q. I noticed there is a new tab in my Excel 365 called Automate. What does this do? A. There is an Automate tab available in Microsoft 365, Excel for Microsoft 365 for Mac, and Excel for the web. The ...

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 ...