Have you ever found yourself staring at a sprawling Excel workbook, wondering if you’re using the right tool for the job? Between Power Query, Power Pivot, and VBA, it’s easy to feel like you’re ...

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

If you use Microsoft Excel on a daily basis as a data analyst or number cruncher, learning how to use Excel’s advanced spreadsheet tools can significantly boost your productivity and efficiency in ...

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 ...

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Learn how to use Excel Power Query's extract and split column features to extract delimited strings into their components with this step-by-step tutorial. You might receive foreign data in the form of ...

Organizations now have one more reason to pay attention to the security settings of their Microsoft Office applications. Researchers at Mimecast have developed a working proof of concept that shows ...

Whether you're applying for a role that requires Excel expertise, want to add more strings to your data analysis bow, or simply want to do more with your data in Microsoft's spreadsheet program, add ...

Although accounting information systems offer vast value to accountants and their clients, they often lack the data analytical capabilities desired for creating additional value. QuickBooks, for ...

You probably think of Microsoft's classic spreadsheet program Excel as mostly boring. Sure, it can wrangle data, but it's not exactly Apex Legends. For hackers, though, it's a lot of fun. Like the ...