Discover expert Power Query tips to reduce steps, streamline workflows, and optimize performance for cleaner, faster data ...

Data comes from all kinds of sources and Microsoft Power Query can you when you need to combine foreign data. It’s a bit easier than trying to do so in Microsoft Excel sometimes.

Learn how to handle column name changes in Power Query and prevent workflow failures with expert tips and dynamic solutions.

This month’s column shows how to clean and join data using Excel’s Power Query.

Download Microsoft Power Query for Excel. The add-in allows for easy data discovery, data transformation and enrichment for Information Workers, BI professionals, etc.

If this is your first experience with Power Query, don’t worry—it’s easier to use than you might think. In Excel 2016 and later, access to Power Query is part of the user interface.

I ’ve always used Excel for quick calculations and simple tables. But aside from common formulas and basic data manipulation ...

Excel provides a handy feature called Enable Background Refresh in Power Query’s properties. This feature keeps updating imported external data continuously while you may work on other worksheets.

Excel isn't going away, but it's going to stop accumulating extra tools like barnacles. Instead Power BI Desktop will become the self-service analytics hub.

The aggregation functions you can use in a QUERY formula are avg (), count (), max (), min (), and sum (). The clause types ...