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Excel Power Query Introduction

1 Day Instructor-led
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Course Information

Course Requirements
  • You should have a reasonable knowledge of using Excel.
  • Familiarity with Excel pivot tables would be an advantage.
  • You should be aware of the Table feature in Excel.
  • You should have Excel 2010 or a later version installed on your PC.
What will you learn 
  • Filtering out data you don't need.
  • Deleting/sorting rows, columns, or blanks
  • Transforming text, numeric, and date columns.
  • Removing spaces and special characters from your data.
  • Renaming, adding/removing, Splitting/joining, and reordering columns.
  • Creating calculating columns/fields which never existed in the source data.
  • Merging / consolidating / appending data from Text files, CSV files or database tables.

Course Outline

1. Topics
  • Power Query Introduction
  • Import Data to Power Query
  • Load & Refresh Data
  • Data Transformation
  • Using the Merge & the Append query features
  • Understanding the basics of the M Language
  • Aggregating Excel Worksheets
  • Introduction to Power Query Formulas

Dates & Availability

We currently don’t have any dates scheduled for this training course but offer it as a corporate, private course for your own team.

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Private Courses

We can arrange your own private Excel course.

Tailored

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Cost Effective

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Post Course Support

Unlimited post course email support on the course topics.

What Our Clients Think

The course was fantastic - I couldn't recommend it enough!

Bonnie Donaghue - IRI

Very good, trainer was excellent.

Mike Hartley-Bingle - XPS Pensions Group

Trainer was very engaging, spent time explaining topics clearly.

Laura Choake - Desoutter Industrial Tools

The trainer was fantastic and very knowledgable!

Harriet Woollam - Galloping Gourmet

The trainer was very through and very helpful. The course was delivered superbly and I'm very pleased.

David O'Hara - Multibrands UK

This course was excellent and I am delighted with how much I have achieved. The trainer was very friendly and approachable.

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