Microsoft Excel - Power Query
Microsoft Excel - Power Query
So you’ve impressed your coworkers with your encyclopedic memory of formulae, become a Pivot pro, and started working IF statements into regular conversation. Now what?
Ken Puls, our award-winning instructor, says Power Query. In a world where data is king, you should know how to work with and understand it – and this tool helps you do just that.
In this Power Query online course, you will learn the BI (Business Intelligence) process of importing data, appending and merging tables, conditional logic, data transformation, and organization. The course starts with the basics of Power Query, and works its way up. This means that you’ll be a pro in no time, even if you’re a beginner with the tool.
If you spend a lot of time manually preparing your data for analysis, this Excel Power Query training will teach you how to shave hours off your day with practical examples, tips, and tricks. Knowledge of Pivot Tables is an asset, but not a requirement. By the end of the course, you will be an expert at cleaning, transforming and reshaping your data so that it is ready to analyze.
Fun fact: the Power Query add-in was so useful, Microsoft built it into Excel 2016 (you can find it in the Data tab under the Get & Transform section).
Highlights:
- 33 practical tutorials
- Review the process used to develop and update modern business intelligence solutions in Excel
- Learn how to consolidate data from databases and external Excel files
- Explore the seven ways to merge data
- Build your own conditional formulae
- Learn how to pivot and unpivot your data
- Use tools to audit your modules
Video tutorials are recorded in Microsoft Excel 2016 for PC. Learn more about how a GoSkills Excel certification can boost your career.
If you’re interested in Power Query, we also recommend the Power BI, Dashboards, and Pivot Tables courses to build your reporting skills.
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Syllabus
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7 Ways to Merge Your Data In this lesson we will explore seven different ways to find matching records, all without using a single VLOOKUP! 5m
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Basic (Left Outer) Joins The lesson demonstrates how to use Power Query to replicate VLOOKUP's exact match functionality (without writing any VLOOKUPs!) 5m
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Outer and Inner Joins Since there are so many joins, it really pays to explore them all. In this lesson we will look at the Left Outer, Right Outer, Full Outer and Inner joins, as well as show a trick for joining on composite keys. 6m
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Anti Joins Some of the most powerful joins for those trying to perform reconciliations are those that identify the items that do NOT match. In this case we will explore how the Left Anti, Right Anti and Full Anti joins can be used to accomplish this. 5m
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Grouping Queries This lesson shows how to create query groups so that you can keep your queries organized. Super useful for creating a self-documenting query chain. 5m
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Viewing Query Dependencies If you ever need to audit your models, you'll find this tool can be helpful. It shows how the queries link together and flow from one to the other. 5m
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Understanding Dates and Locale One of the things we need to understand is how Excel interprets dates, and how we can override the defaults by setting the data's Locale. 6m
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Getting Data from Excel Tables Data often lives inside Excel tables. But even if it doesn't, Power Query will create one for you. 6m
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Getting Data from Excel Ranges Sometimes you don't want to add a table style to your document. In this lesson we'll look at how to import data from an Excel range. 6m
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Getting Data from External Excel Files Sometimes you want to build a solution that pulls its data from a different Excel workbook. In this lesson we will show you how. 5m
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Getting Data from Databases One of the most important data sources to pull from is a database, but they have their own interesting nuances as well. In this lesson we will take a look at those. 6m
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Getting Data from Text Files Importing data from a text file into an Excel table. 8m
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Unpivoting Data If you work with PivotTables a lot, you know that they put information out the way users want to read it, but you can't use it to drive another PivotTable. So what if there was an easy way to unpivot the data? There is, and it's called Power Query! 6m
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Unpivoting Subcategorized Data The challenge with the Unpivot functionality is that you can only unpivot based on a single header row. So what if you have multiple rows of subheaders? In this lesson we will show you how to circumvent that issue. 6m
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Pivoting Data While we can use PivotTables to pivot data, occasionally we need to pivot our data in the data preparation phase. This lesson exposes how the Pivot functionality works in Power Query. 5m
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Grouping Data When building models, many users pull in data that is far too granular, resulting a many more records than they need. Power Query offers a tool to group that data for you, so that you aren't wasting storage space on unnecessary records. 5m
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Pivoting Stacked Data This lesson exposes a very important pattern for wrangling data. Once you can get it into a single column, hit it with this recipe and it will land nicely into a table. 6m
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Append All Files in a Folder - Theory Power Query adds the ability to reach into a folder and append all files in the folder based on the transformations of a single file. Before you can leverage it, however, you need to learn the background, and that's what this lesson is all about. 6m
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Append Objects Within the Current Excel Workbook Wouldn't it be nice if you could append all Tables in the current Excel workbook without having to do each manually? You absolutely can - and this lesson shows how to avoid causing massive errors in the process. 6m
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Append Objects in an External Excel Workbook This lesson explores connecting to an external workbook to append all tables, worksheets and/or ranges within it. 5m
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Append All Files in a Folder - Preparation Before you unleash this magic skill, there is a bit of prep-work that should be done to future-proof your solution and make it more portable. In this lesson we will explore how to do this. 5m
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Append All Files in a Folder - Application This lesson will teach you how to unleash the magic of appending all files in a folder, and show you how effective it is. 8m
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Appending Tables Manually Appending tables is the process of stacking them vertically to create long tables that can be used to feed business intelligence solutions and PivotTables. 6m
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Basic Conditional Logic No data manipulation tool would be complete without the ability to use conditional logic. In this lesson we will explore the benefits of Power Query's user interface driven "Conditional Column" tool. 6m
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Writing Your Own Conditional Formulae Unfortunately, not every conditional logic scenario can be created using the "Conditional Column" tool. In this lesson you'll learn about the shortcomings of this tool and how to work around them by using the "Add Custom Column" button. 5m
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Solving Logic Problems Using Errors This lesson shows how we can use errors to our benefit to solve conditional logic problems. 5m
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Create Columns from Examples Sometimes trying to extract data from a column can be difficult, so why not let Power Query help? Microsoft has put significant effort into a tool called "Columns From Examples" where you can define and refine the output, and let Power Query build the formula to get the results. 7m
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Overview of the BI Process A review of the process used to develop and update modern business intelligence solutions in Excel. 4m
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Creating PivotTables The whole reason we get data in the first place is to turn it into information. And the best tool to quickly turn data into information? Excel's PivotTable! 5m
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The Value is in the Refresh While there is certainly value in the initial analysis, the real value in any BI solution comes from the refresh. When your boss comes to you and asks you to update the solution it took you hours to build and gives you a deadline of 10 minutes, you need to be able to say "Yes, I've got this." 5m
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Getting Basic Data An introduction into using Power Query technology to get data for an Excel business intelligence solution. 7m
Certificate
Certificate of Completion
Awarded upon successful completion of the course.
Instructor
Ken Puls
Ken is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) in Canada, who never remembers life without spreadsheets and computers! Since the late 1990s, he has spent his career in the hospitality and tourism industry, in the finance and IT fields. Ken is currently the Director of IT at a resort on Vancouver Island.
To this day, he dedicates a significant portion of his time to developing automated solutions and internal controls, as well as focusing time and energy on improving Business Intelligence systems. Through his work, he designs and develops new systems, using such technology as Excel spreadsheets and VBA (Excel's programming language), automating as many tasks as possible, and thereby saving significant costs and maximizing efficiencies. Ken says, “I love the power that Excel puts at my finger tips and I’m still amazed by the things it can do.”
Ken Puls
Excel MVP
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How GoSkills helped Chris
I got the promotion largely because of the skills I could develop, thanks to the GoSkills courses I took. I set aside at least 30 minutes daily to invest in myself and my professional growth. Seeing how much this has helped me become a more efficient employee is a big motivation.
