Replace broken brackets in Excel with clear, flexible Power Query rules that handle real-world data effortlessly.

Learn how to pull data from another Excel sheet based on specific criteria. This video demonstrates four methods to extract ...

NOTE: This post was written before Data Explorer was renamed as Power Query. All of the content is still relevant to Power Query. One of the first questions I get asked after showing someone ...

If you ever felt it was daunting to search your files in Office web apps, the latest update from Microsoft will ease that headache a little. In the latest Tech Community blog post, Microsoft announced ...

Most enterprise RAG pipelines are optimized for one search behavior. They fail silently on the others. A model trained to synthesize cross-document reports handles constraint-driven entity search ...

New laptops with ARM processors (such as some Surface models) run older software through an emulation layer, which can cause Power Query to crash. Installing the native ARM64 version of Office allows ...

Power Query used to be quite limited in Excel for the web, but Microsoft has now rolled out an update that brings the full experience to certain subscribers. Microsoft, in a recent announcement, said ...

We’ll take you through a step-by-step guide on how to open an XML file in Excel, Word, Chrome, and Edge. Let’s get started. It may sound strange, but MS Excel can handle XML data. It allows you to ...

Microsoft has announced that it will start disabling external workbook links to blocked file types by default between October 2025 and July 2026. After the rollout ...

Microsoft Excel for Windows is getting a streamlined upgrade for anyone working with external data. If you regularly use Power Query, there’s a brand-new “Get Data” experience rolling out that aims to ...

🤔 Why Use Excel Power Query Editor? Let’s be honest: Excel’s built-in Power Query editor is... not great. It’s slow, clunky, Windows-only, and the Advanced Editor is barely an editor at all. We got ...