Security researchers have devised a method to abuse a legitimate Microsoft Excel technology named Power Query to run malicious code on users' systems with minimal interaction. Power Query is a data ...

Recent expert guides and tutorials position Microsoft Excel’s Power Query as a core tool for automating data cleaning and transformation. By replacing manual steps and complex formulas with repeatable ...

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 Excel queries retrieve information from tables of data. For example, your business may store staff sales figures in an Access database. To chart the performance of your most productive staff ...

Advances in AI-powered tools are streamlining Excel automation by combining cloud-based scripting, no-code workflows, and intelligent data summarization. Microsoft’s Office Scripts, Power Query, and ...

You probably think of Microsoft's classic spreadsheet program Excel as mostly boring. Sure, it can wrangle data, but it's not exactly Apex Legends. For hackers, though, it's a lot of fun. Like the ...

A new spam campaign has been spotted distributing the Buran Ransomware through IQY file attachments. When opened, these Microsoft Excel Web Query attachments will execute a remote command that ...

Using the External Data Connection feature in Excel, you can acquire information from external sources, such as Access and SQL Server. The data remains stored at its original source, but the data ...

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 ...

At this year's Ignite event, Microsoft has announced some improvements coming to Excel in the coming weeks and months. Some of these were already known about, such as the new XLOOKUP function and ...