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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

If you are looking to training a group of people private courses can be very cost effective.

Post Course Support

Unlimited post course email support on the course topics.

What Our Clients Think

Very good introduction. Well paced and suited a range of experience levels.

Felicity Howdle - Health Education England

Really good trainer. He made the training interesting and fun.

Wendy Sipson - Hampshire Constabulary

Very good, trainer was excellent.

Mike Hartley-Bingle - XPS Pensions Group

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

Bonnie Donaghue - IRI

I found the course very relevant to a lot of the day-to-day work I do.

Sian Stephenson - Aldi Stores Ltd

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

Rosie Heath - Licensed Trade Charity

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