Learn how Excel IMPORTCSV refreshes linked CSV data, handles locale formats, and switches to IMPORTTEXT for semicolon delimiters.

Q. Can you tell me how to use the linked data types in Microsoft Excel? A. You can convert text in Excel to linked data types. This is referred to as “linked” data types because the data is connected ...

Avoid PivotTable failures caused by merged cells, blank columns, and subtotals, with Power Query steps to clean the source ...

There are many ways to find and retrieve data from a table or range based on a lookup value. In fact, because Microsoft often comes up with new, modernized alternatives, there are too many ways! So, ...

Importing data into Excel from other sources can a real headache, especially if you’re copying and pasting from an Internet source. Data that’s exported from a mainframe; from another program such as ...

Move beyond the basics of sums and averages. These tips open up all kinds of opportunities for working with spreadsheet data. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Sept. 2012 and the ...

Q: We receive documents in paper form, and I have to type information from them into our system. Is there an easier way to digitize this information into Excel? A: Excel allows you to extract data ...

The last piece of this three-part article is about merging your custom Word documents with your client list (exported from Outlook to Excel) for distribution. Part One explains how to selectively ...

Microsoft Office is designed so you can import data from one Office program to another seamlessly. For example, you can import Word document data and even whole Word documents in their entirety into ...