Basic introduction to power query
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This document provides an introduction to Power Query, including its purpose and advantages. Power Query is an Excel add-in that allows users to extract data from various sources, transform it, and load it into a worksheet. It provides tools for cleaning, transforming, and reshaping data in one place. Using Power Query can save hours of manual work when copying, pasting, and redoing transformations. It also allows data to be refreshed with one click to update it quickly. The document reviews how to install Power Query, get to know the editor interface, load data, and provides some useful links for learning more.
Basic introduction to power query
- 1. Basic Introduction to Power Query Disha Parmar
- 2. Introduction to Power Query 1 2 4 5 6 Content 3 Purpose and advantages Install Power Query for Excel Getting to know Power Query & Editor Exploring Power Query Editor Loading data with Power Query
- 3. INTRODUCTION Power Query is an Excel add-in that you can use for ETL. That means, you can extract data from different sources, transform it, and then load it to the worksheet. Power Query is a business intelligence tool available in Excel that allows you to import data from many different sources and then clean, transform and reshape your data as needed. It allows you to set up a query once and then reuse it with a simple refresh.
- 4. Gives us an array of rich tools for transforming data all in one place. 01 Saves hours of time that in the past was spent manually copying and pasting. 02 Will save you hours of time re-doing manual work. 03 Allows one-click refresh of the data to update current or updated data quickly. 04 Purpose and Advantages
- 5. Install Power Query for Excel
- 6. Find and connect data across a wide variety of sources. 1 Processing large amount of data (where Excel is limited to one million rows) 2 Merge and shape data sources to match your data analysis requirements or prepare it for further analysis and modelling by tools such as Power Pivot and Power View. 3 Manipulating, cleaning and combining several tables, files or even folders ! Create custom views over data. 5 4 Getting to know Power Query & Editor
- 7. Process your tables simply by clicking on buttons. No coding skills needed ! Visualize your operations step by step without running a macro. Easily edit the steps order of different steps through dragging and dropping! Also, you can add and delete unnecessary steps by a simple click. Why is Power Query a great alternative to Excel VBA?
- 8. Loading data with Power Query On the Data tab, in the Get & Transform Data group, click Get Data. Click on the source
- 9. Exploring Power Query Editor
- 10. Create a Query in Excel
- 11. • Excel Power Query, Power Pivot, Power Map & DAX Masterclass (udemy.com) Useful Links • https://www.microsoft.com/en- us/download/details.aspx?id=39379&CorrelationId=b5b66782-febb-4214-ae23- 8152722f04f7
- 12. Thank You !!