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We start this tutorial with a blank workbook. The goal in this section is to connect to an external data source, and import that data into Excel for further analysis. Let’s start by downloading some data from the Internet. The data describes Olympic Medals, and is a Microsoft Access database.
Create an Office Data Connection (ODC) file. By using the dialog box or the Data Connection Wizard, you can use Excel to create an Office Data Connection (ODC) file (.odc). For more information, see Connection properties Share data with ODC. Create a new connection to the data source.
With Power Query (known as Get & Transform in Excel), you can import or connect to external data, and then shape that data, for example remove a column, change a data type, or merge tables, in ways that meet your needs. Then, you can load your query into Excel to create charts and reports.
Power Pivot in Microsoft Excel is an add-in you can use to perform powerful data analysis in Excel. Here’s how you enable Power Pivot before you use it for the first time.
Use Power Query in Excel to import data into Excel from a wide variety of popular data sources, including CSV, XML, JSON, PDF, SharePoint, SQL, and more.
This article explains how to create a flow chart that contains pictures. You can use the methods described in this article to create or change almost any SmartArt graphic. Try different layouts to achieve the results you want. What do you want to do? Create a flow chart with pictures. Add or delete boxes in your flow chart.
Split text into different columns with functions. Learn how to take the text in one or more cells, and split it out across multiple cells by using Excel functions. This is called parsing, and is the opposite of concatenate. Watch more in this video.
Then, click Data > Data From Picture and follow the on-screen instructions to convert picture to data. With the Data from Picture feature, you can insert data from a screen clipping on your clipboard, an image file from your computer, or from your iPhone camera.
To quickly add a word to a your default dictionary, right-click the word in a document, and select Add to dictionary. To edit a word, delete it, and then add it with the spelling you want. To save words by default to this custom dictionary, see , below.
In Excel 2010, the maximum worksheet size is 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns. In this article, find all workbook, worksheet, and feature specifications and limits.
Splits text strings by using column and row delimiters. The TEXTSPLIT function works the same as the Text-to-Columns wizard, but in formula form. It allows you to split across columns or down by rows. It is the inverse of the TEXTJOIN function.