Lookup the Last Value in Excel [XLOOKUP & INDEX / MATCH]

Looking up the last value is usually not the default when you perform lookups with various lookup functions. However there are times when you want to find the last item in a list or array that matches a criteria. With the newer XLOOKUP function, it makes this job very easy. The only catch is that XLOOKUP is on newer version of Excel. If you didn't have the latest Excel version, you can still perform a lookup for the last item and that can be done with a combination of the INDEX and MATCH functions.

Rename Multiple Columns with Power Query

Sometimes you get data from others that have columns that you'd need to change the name. If it's something you do once, using the Excel Find and Replace function is fine. But if it's something you're going to do multiple times or a recurring basis, you'd think that a VBA macro is something that will need to be written. And if you don't know VBA, this bulk automation process may seem out of reach. However if you have Power Query in your versions of Excel, it's actually quite easy to rename multiple columns at once with some nested M code functions.

Removing Multiple Columns in Excel | Power Query

To remove or delete blank columns in an Excel table is fairly straight forward and easy. Just select the column or press Ctrl to select multiple columns to delete. However if there might be a LOT of columns and they might be non consecutive (i.e., not next to each other). You may have received this table from a system, person or some other source that has just not thought about you as a end user (the table has twenty or more empty columns EVERYWHERE) and it's going to be a lot of clicking. There are a couple a ways this could be solved and it doesn't involved writing VBA. There is a little bit of M code to write in one of the examples, but it is not that much considered its usefulness. See the video now to see how it's done.