Microsoft updates for Excel in January 2026 introduce Agent Mode with Copilot, new import tools, clearer error messages, Power Query on Mac and Web, and Office Scripts automation to ease daily tasks.

Once data is loaded into Excel, Copilot allows users to ask questions in natural language instead of building new formulas.

Microsoft’s January 2026 update puts Excel back in the spotlight. After a brief pause late last year, the company has resumed its monthly feature recap, and thi ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a massive spreadsheet, wondering how to extract just the right information without getting lost in a sea of data? Whether you’re a seasoned Excel user or just ...

Originally, Excel was not designed to be a real database. Its early database functions were limited in quantity and in quality. And because every record in an Excel database is visible on the screen ...

The January 2017 JofA article “Data Mining Your General Ledger With Excel” presents a step-by-step, formula-based approach to extracting general ledger data and then scrubbing them so that they can be ...

Replace manual Excel tasks with conditional columns, smart merging, the unpivot tool, and more.

How to combine data ranges with Microsoft Power Query in Excel Your email has been sent Microsoft Power Query showed up in Excel 2016, though earlier versions can ...

To enter data in Excel, you can either type it in or import it from different sources. It’s easy to import data from a standard .CSV format, but what about importing it from a database? You can ...

Excel's query tool reshapes messy imports into 1NF, so AVERAGEIFS replaces hacks and your summaries run faster.