Have you ever spent hours fine-tuning a Power Query workflow, only to have it break because a column name changed? It’s a frustratingly common scenario for anyone working with dynamic or external data ...

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 ...

Merge lists even with typos and inconsistent names. Tune the similarity threshold, use a transform table, and audit results ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft Excel: How to use Power Query to display a list of duplicate values or records Your email has been sent Whether duplicate records are good or bad depends on specific conventions that you ...