As PCMag's resident data journalist, I practically live in Microsoft Excel. I've learned that it's capable of far more than I ...

Unlike one-off tools, Column From Examples records transformation steps so results remain stable as new data is added.

Use Power Query's M language to quickly fix names, remove hidden characters, extract numbers, and merge columns.

Microsoft’s January 2026 update puts Excel back in the spotlight. After a brief pause late last year, the company has resumed its monthly feature recap, and this time the bulk of the changes land ...

Power Query used to be quite limited in Excel for the web, but Microsoft has now rolled out an update that brings the full experience to certain subscribers. Microsoft, in a recent announcement, said ...

To make it easier to pull a .csv or .txt file directly into Excel without having to deal with Power Query, Microsoft is introducing two new import functions. Microsoft is making two new Import ...

Have you ever found yourself buried under a mountain of Excel sheets, each holding pieces of data that need to be stitched together into one cohesive whole? It’s a common challenge for anyone working ...

If you’ve ever found yourself staring at a messy spreadsheet of survey data, wondering how to make sense of it all, you’re not alone. From split headers to inconsistent blanks, the challenges of ...

Microsoft Excel is a widely used spreadsheet software that has been around for decades. To learn Excel, start slowly, play around with the basics, and seek out online tutorials. Excel is part of the ...