Data cleaning is a crucial step in the data analysis process. Inaccurate, incomplete, or inconsistent data can lead to flawed insights and poor decision-making. Fortunately, Excel 365’s Power Query ...

Is Excel's Clean Data button the ultimate time-saver for messy spreadsheets? Find out how it works, its quirks, and how it compares to Power Query ...

Handling hundreds of rows, columns, and pivot tables usually results in a less-than-perfect dataset. A massive Excel workbook is often riddled with inconsistencies, errors, missing values, duplicates, ...

Q. You explained Excel’s Scenario Manager in your November 2024 Tech Q&A article and Goal Seek in your December 2024 Tech Q&A article. Can you please explain the final What-If Analysis tool: Data ...

Understanding, organizing, and validating data directly affects the accuracy of stories. New tools make cleaning accessible ...

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Q. In your November Tech Q&A article on Excel’s Scenario Manager, you mentioned two other “what-if” tools: Goal Seek and Data Table. Can you show how those work like you did with Scenario Manager?

AQ-IQ Mentor Xavier McIntyre explains how to import pod data (from a .txt file) into Excel. How to Import Pod Data into Excel AQ-IQ Mentor Cindy Yang explains how to create a graph without baseline ...

What-if analysis in Excel is a powerful tool that allows you to explore different scenarios and outcomes by changing input values in your formulas. This guide will walk you through the three primary ...