Microsoft has released an add-in for Microsoft Excel called Data Explorer. It is now called Microsoft Power Query. The free add-in has been designed to reduce your efforts in searching, shaping, and ...

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

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. If you need a complete list of Microsoft ...

Microsoft adds IMPORTTEXT and IMPORTCSV to Excel, letting users pull text files directly into the grid with simple formulas.

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No more Power Query needed.