Have you ever found yourself staring at a sprawling Excel workbook, wondering if you’re using the right tool for the job? Between Power Query, Power Pivot, and VBA, it’s easy to feel like you’re ...

If you need a complete list of Microsoft Excel sheet names, Power Query is fast and generates a dynamic list. When a Microsoft Excel workbook contains a lot of sheets, the sheet tab you need is often ...

Have you ever spent hours wrestling with messy spreadsheets, trying to clean up data that just won’t cooperate? Or maybe you’ve found yourself manually merging files, painstakingly copying and pasting ...

Advances in AI-powered tools are streamlining Excel automation by combining cloud-based scripting, no-code workflows, and intelligent data summarization. Microsoft’s Office Scripts, Power Query, and ...

Web queries offer a handy way to import data from selected tables into a worksheet–but Excel isn’t as accommodating as it should be, especially when it comes to parameters. These tricks will let you ...

Using the External Data Connection feature in Excel, you can acquire information from external sources, such as Access and SQL Server. The data remains stored at its original source, but the data ...

Microsoft Excel has been the premier spreadsheet software for decades, since outdoing the once venerable Lotus 1-2-3, the first killer app for PCs in the 1980s. And Excel's dominance has yet to be ...

Microsoft’s April 2026 Excel update expands Copilot with interactive editing, planning modes, Python integration, and improved iOS comments, marking a deeper shift toward AI-driven workflows.