Power Query replaces risky and time-consuming manual edits with a safe, user-friendly system that speeds up everyday ...

Stop losing your manual Excel edits during data updates with this guide to preserving custom columns in Power Query.

Microsoft added reusable Skills, new financial data connectors, and traceability features to Copilot in Excel, built specifically for finance teams.

Instead of tedious hands-on repairs, Excel lets you quickly clean, reshape, and combine CSV files through repeatable Power ...

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DuckDB is an amazing tool with deep integration with Python and R, but sometimes you just need data in Excel. xlDuckDb allows DuckDB SQL to be run within Excel. Query results are returned as regular ...

So far Excel users had three ways to invoke Copilot. Microsoft has now decided that was three too many. In February 2026, the company retired App Skills entry points from the Excel ribbon and context ...

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 ...

If you often work with data that starts life as a text file or CSV, Microsoft Excel now has new built-in tools that simplify how that information gets pulled into a spreadsheet. The update introduces ...

To make it easier to pull a .csv or .txt file directly into Excel without having to deal with Power Query, Microsoft is introducing two new import functions. Microsoft is making two new Import ...

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Since Github doesn't provide a great way for you to learn about new releases and features, don't just star the repo, join the mailing list. dsq will likely work on other platforms that Go is ported to ...