Data comes from all kinds of sources and Microsoft Power Query can you when you need to combine foreign data. It’s a bit easier than trying to do so in Microsoft Excel sometimes.

Discover why Power Query is the smarter alternative to Excel formulas for cleaning, transforming, and analyzing data efficiently.

This month’s column shows how to clean and join data using Excel’s Power Query.

Have you heard of Power Query in Microsoft Excel but always thought that it's only intended for Excel experts? Let me stop you there because, actually, Power Query is designed to be user-friendly ...

Then you’re ready for the power-user courses: for example how to use Power Query, Power Pivot and Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) for data modeling purposes.

If your source data is in Excel and has duplicates, run Power Query to remove those duplicates before running a Word mail merge.