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As such, the course focuses almost exclusively on using the PowerQuery ribbon to perform every action. This course is designed for all Excel users since PowerQuery is designed for all users - not just power users capable of building incredible Excel worksheets with functions, VBA, and mystical trickery. Why write three columns of SUMIFS if you can get the same results with a single GROUP BY command without needing to write any formulas at all?Ī brief glimpse of PowerQuery’s usefulness and capabilities…

The PowerQuery tool includes mechanisms for performing these operations that make these functions seem quaint and outdated. These Excel functions provide some function of merging, linking, and aggregating. Replace your vast spreadsheets packed with VLOOKUPs, SUMIFS, SUM, COUNTIFS, and more with PowerQueries that can be created with your mouse via clean and incredibly easy to use interfaces. This course will teach you how to perform effective data analysis that takes a fraction of the time to put together. Replace many tedious and error-prone Excel formula-based approaches. You will build data requests against these alternative sources quickly and easily, while incorporating data standardization and cleaning components into that same request. PowerQuery can solve all of these issues. Have you ever asked your database administrator for a data report to work with, and gone through a dozen iterations (and multiple weeks) before having something you could adequately use in Excel?Įver abandoned a project because automating data from an external source seemed too daunting or might have required VBA? You will become a capable query creator and editor with no coding or Excel formula knowledge required.Īccess the world beyond Excel’s boundariesĮver copy and paste data from one workbook into another? This course is for anyone new to PowerQuery and applicable to any level of Excel user. Microsoft’s PowerQuery (Get and Transform in Excel 2016) offers a wide variety of tools ideal for accessing local and external data sets, cleaning and re-framing information into usable structures, working across multiple data tables to perform lookups and combinations, and building informational and powerful reports. Incorporate PowerQuery into your toolset to revolutionize how you use Excel.