Data comes from all kinds of sources and Microsoft Power Query can you when you need to combine foreign data. It’s a bit easier than trying to do so in Microsoft Excel sometimes.

Next, in Excel 2016 and newer, click the Data tab on the Ribbon, and then in the Get & Transform area, click the From Table/Range button to bring up the Power Query Editor window.

Excel Tables offer a range of features for working with list-style data.

Excel tables have many benefits that regular spreadsheets lack. The biggest is the option to use data from multiple tables to create queries and reports.

Populate the Excel dropdown by referencing the named range, Animals_List. As you can see in Figure D, Excel populates the dropdown using the list of animals on the Lists sheet — a completely ...

Microsoft announced this week that's it's now possible for Office 365 users to import table data from Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files into the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program.

If you are getting the Data source reference is not valid while trying to create a pivot table in Microsoft Excel, see this post for the fix.