STEP 1: Our sample data consists of Months and multiple Sales values for each quarter.
You will be asked in which destination folder you want to install Power Query.
STEP 3: Press the Download button and you will need to select the download bit version based on the bit system your Excel 2013 version is running (from Step 1):
Once you know this, close out of Excel completely! To check the bit version, you need to go and open any Excel workbook and go to File > Account > About Excel and from the pop up dialogue box you will see the bit number, either 32-bit or 64-bit. If you do not have this then you will need to upgrade to Office 365 using this link: The best thing is that the next time you receive the same ugly file, all you need to do is press the Refresh button and your data will automatically be cleaned up and displayed the correct way!Īpart from cleaning data, Power Query can append or merge two separate tables together (bye bye VLOOKUP!) as well as create extra columns in your data that can display your custom calculations!įirst you need to have Microsoft Office 2013. Well Power Query accesses, cleans, and transforms all that messy data and displays it in a way that Excel loves and can work with. Power Query is a new add-in that was introduced in Excel 2013 by Microsoft and was that popular that they made it backward compatible with Excel 2010. You will now see Power Query on your ribbon! This will open the COM Add-Ins dialogue box and you will need to check the box for Microsoft Power Query for Excel and press OK. You will need to go to File > Options > Add-Ins > and at the bottom you will need to select the Manage drop-down and choose COM Add-ins and hit the Go button: STEP 7: If you do not see the Power Query tab you will need to activate this from the back end of Excel. STEP 6: Open a blank Excel workbook and on the ribbon menu you should now see the Power Query tab: You will get the following message once your install has been completed successfully. You will be asked in which destination folder you want to install the Power Query.Ĭlick Next for the default folder or Change if you want to install it in another folder:Ĭlick Next and select the Install button:Ĭlick Yes if it asks you if you want to install Power Query on your computer. STEP 5: This will bring up the Microsoft Power Query for Excel Setup:Ĭlick the Next button and accept the terms of the Licence Agreement and press Next again: msi file installer on your browser (if you do not see this, go to your browser’s Downloads folder). …and this will start the download of the add-in installer. STEP 3: Press the Download button and you will need to select the download bit version based on the bit system your Excel 2010 version is running (from Step 1): STEP 2: You will need to click on the following link and download the Power Query add-in from Microsoft’s website: To check the bit version, you need to go and open any Excel workbook and go to File > Help and on the far right-hand side, you will see the Version and the bit number in brackets, either (32-bit) or (64-bit). STEP 1: The first step is to check the Excel bit version that you have on your PC.
If you do not have this then you will need to upgrade to Office 365 using this link:
So goodbye VBA coding ? ? ? So how do I get your hands on this super awesome add-in…I hear you say?įirst, you need to have Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus with Software Assurance. You can use Power Query to perform transformations that would be very complex in VBA or SQL. You have all that functionality in Power Query at the press of a menu command! Now your life has just become a lot…well, a hell of a lot easier ?Īpart from cleaning data, Power Query can append or merge two separate tables together (bye bye VLOOKUP!) as well as create extra columns in your data that can display your custom calculations! So no more formulas, text to columns, trim spaces, vlookup, find & replace, etc. The best thing is that the next time you receive the same ugly file, all you need to do is press the Refresh button and your data will automatically be cleaned up and displayed the correct way! Well Power Query accesses, cleans, and transforms all that messy data and displays it in a way that Excel loves and can work with.
Well you know when you get data from a file, a data dump/import, or an external data source and it comes into Excel in an ugly, unworkable format? I can hear you say YEEEES!