Excel - Power Query
What you'll learn
- Describe the purpose of Power Query
- Connect to data in Excel, databases, and other sources
- Clean up and transform data
- Add new columns
- Sort, filter, and unpivot data
- Manage applied steps
- Manage multiple queries
- Create append and merge queries
- Create a web query
Requirements
- Mastering Microsoft Excel 365 Intermediate course or strong Excel skills
Description
Save time cleaning up and managing your data with Excel’s popular power tool
Have you spent a lot of time performing repetitive cleanup tasks on your data, using multiple VLOOKUP functions to merge data, or trying to combine multiple datasets? If so, then Excel’s Power Query tool will transform how you work. You’ll learn how to connect to multiple data sources, and set up queries to remove unneeded data, manipulate existing data, and even create new columns. And the best part is, once you’ve set up your query, you’ll just refresh it when you need to perform those tasks. Microsoft-certified trainer Kathy Jones will show you how to use the Power Query Editor to perform all of these functions and streamline your workflow in the process.
Topics covered include:
Connecting to data in Excel, databases, and other sources
Cleaning up and transforming data
Adding new columns
Sorting, filtering, and unpivoting data
Managing applied steps
Managing multiple queries
Creating append and merge queries
Creating a web query
Describe the purpose of Power Query
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Course Goal: By the end of this course, you will be able to describe the purpose of Power Query, link to multiple types of datasets, transform data, and manage queries.
Who this course is for:
- Intermediate to advanced Excel users who need to import, clean up, or manage data on a repeated basis.
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