Learn how Power Query can boost your Excel skills with tips to clean, transform, and analyze data faster and more efficiently ...

Taking the query in the previous example, some cells in the "Last played" column contain errors, because they previously contained the text value "Present" in a column formatted as whole numbers.

Analyzing data often means spending more time getting and cleaning up data than analyzing it. If that describes you, definitely review Excel 2016’s Power Query (or Get & Transform).

Use Power Query’s text extraction functions to extract the date Add the extracted date as a new column in your dataset Ensure the date format is consistent and suitable for analysis ...

Power Query’s Columns From Examples feature can do more than transpose values – it can also combine multiple values into a single cell. To illustrate, let’s combine the address elements into ...