Blank columns and rows look harmless in a spreadsheet, but they quietly break sorting, filtering, and pivot tables. This video walks through three ways to find and remove them, starting with Go To Special and ending with Power Query, which is the one to use if you keep receiving messy exports. A few minutes well spent if you work with downloaded data.
Title: Delete Blank Columns in Excel: 3 Easy Ways
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Impersonation has gotten convincing enough that a quick glance at an email from your boss or a text from your bank is no longer enough. This one-minute podcast lays out QVR, a three-step habit for any unexpected request: question whether the sender is who they claim to be, verify it through a trusted channel, and report it if something feels off. Short enough to send to your whole team.
Title: QVR: Question, Verify, & Report
Viewing Time: under 2 minutes
Reconciliation is now built into Copilot. It matches transactions across the ledger and the bank statement, flags exceptions, and keeps calculations tied to their sources so the numbers can be verified. The demo also shows the workbook turned into an interactive canvas that updates on its own when the data changes. Worth a look before the next month-end close.
Title: New accounting skills in Copilot in Excel
Viewing Time: about 1 minute
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