Excel Power Query Tips and Techniques

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Free Online Course: Excel Power Query Tips and Techniques provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for Less than 1 hour of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Excel Power Query Tips and Techniques is taught by Oz du Soleil.

Overview
  • Learn quick ways to become more organized and efficient when using Power Query, a tool inside Microsoft Excel that lets you search, connect, and shape data.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Get more from Power Query
    • What you should know
    1. Customizing Your Environment
    • Disable auto detect data type
    • View monospaced
    2. Organizing Your Work
    • Rename column
    • Move, insert, and delete query steps
    • Rename steps in a query
    • Determining query dependencies
    3. Working with Queries
    • Navigate to new source
    • Change load-to destination
    • Reference a query
    • Duplicate a query: Recycling
    • Duplicate a query vs. reference a query
    • Delete steps until the end
    • Cross join: Matching everything with everything
    • Rename queries
    • Copy and paste queries to a new workbook
    • Merging and segmenting data: Anti-join
    • Merge queries as new
    4. Power Query Peculiarities
    • Filtering in Power Query
    • Sorting in Power Query
    • Pass parameter: Drill down to a single value
    • Prevent table from resizing
    • Transformation table
    • Filter for certain files when importing from a folder
    • Warning: Two types of merges
    • Splitting columns