Have you ever stared at a beautifully organized table in Excel—rows and columns perfectly aligned—only to realize it’s a nightmare for analysis? Cross-tab layouts, while visually appealing, can feel ...

Once data is loaded into Excel, Copilot allows users to ask questions in natural language instead of building new formulas.

Have you ever found yourself tangled in a web of Excel formulas, trying to clean up messy datasets or make sense of inconsistent entries? If so, you’re not alone. Many of us have spent countless hours ...

Replace manual Excel tasks with conditional columns, smart merging, the unpivot tool, and more.

Using the External Data Connection feature in Excel, you can acquire information from external sources, such as Access and SQL Server. The data remains stored at its original source, but the data ...

To enter data in Excel, you can either type it in or import it from different sources. It’s easy to import data from a standard .CSV format, but what about importing it from a database? You can ...

Originally, Excel was not designed to be a real database. Its early database functions were limited in quantity and in quality. And because every record in an Excel database is visible on the screen ...

Web queries offer a handy way to import data from selected tables into a worksheet--but Excel isn't as accommodating as it should be, especially when it comes to parameters. These tricks will let you ...