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Use Excel’s MS Query Wizard to query Access databases Your email has been sent Don't have access to Access? You can use Excel to open the database you want, using the MS Query Wizard. Here's how to ...

Microsoft Excel: How to use Power Query to display a list of duplicate values or records Your email has been sent Whether duplicate records are good or bad depends on specific conventions that you ...

If you are working with Excel spreadsheets or workbooks, juggling multiple tables of data, at some time you might need to combine them into one. Rather than spending hours manually copying and pasting ...

Organizations now have one more reason to pay attention to the security settings of their Microsoft Office applications. Researchers at Mimecast have developed a working proof of concept that shows ...

Microsoft is rolling out a major update to its spreadsheet software Excel that extends the supported pool of data types far beyond just numbers and text. In previous updates, the firm introduced ...