Excel Power Query: The Powerful Get & Transform Tool for Importing and Manipulating Data
Learn to import, clean, transform and combine large datasets with Excel Power Query, then build repeatable reports and PivotTables without formulas or macros.
Speaker
Mike Thomas
Excel trainer · The Excel Trainer · IT trainer since 1989
Overview
Large imported datasets quickly hit Excel's limits. Power Query, called Get & Transform in Excel 2016, gets past them by letting you import and work with datasets of over a million rows from almost any source. This 90-minute Excel Power Query training shows how to put it to work.
Imported data usually needs cleanup before you can use it. Power Query does that faster than standard Excel tools, handles far more data and repeats the steps with a couple of clicks.
You'll import and link external data, clean and transform it in the Query Editor, add calculated columns, combine tables, unpivot data and build PivotTables from external sources, then produce consolidated monthly reports at the press of a button.
Why attend: If you analyze and report on large datasets, Power Query is a must-know tool. This introductory course gets you using it with confidence to clean, transform, consolidate and automate your data and reports. It suits accountants and CPAs, CFOs, controllers and financial consultants, and audit, finance, HR, IT, marketing and supply chain professionals in banking, insurance, education, telecom, life sciences, aviation, energy and retail.
What’s covered
- Importing data into Excel from external sources
- Linking to external sources
- Creating PivotTables from external data sources
- Using the Query Editor to create calculated columns
- Using the Query Editor to clean and transform data
- Combining data from multiple tables
- Using the Unpivot feature
Who should attend
What you get
About the speaker
Mike has worked in the IT training business since 1989 where his expertise and experience covers designing, delivering training courses, writing training materials and recording and editing video-based tutorials. Although he is a subject matter expert in a range of Microsoft technologies and has worked extensively with Mac OSX and Mac-related software since 2006; however, his passion is for all-things-Excel and in 2012 he founded the website theexceltrainer.co.uk
Mike is a Fellow of The Learning and Performance Institute and has worked with and for a large number of global and UK-based companies and organizations across a diverse range of sectors. In addition to training, he designs and develops Microsoft Office-based solutions that automate key business tasks and processes.
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