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.

SEE: Explore 6 ways to save time using Flash Fill in Microsoft Excel. How to use Power Query to parse data in Microsoft Excel Power Query is available to Microsoft Excel 2010 users and later.

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You can link Google Sheets with Microsoft Excel by creating a web query in Excel. But this is only one-way integration which means that the changes made to Google Sheets will automatically be ...