Know which environment you're in Power Query is well-integrated into the Excel user interface, especially when you import data, work with connections, and edit Pivot Tables, Excel tables, and named ranges.
With Power Query, you can search for data sources, make connections, and then shape that data (for example remove a column, change a data type, or merge tables) in ways that meet your needs. Once you’ve shaped your data, you can share your findings or use your query to create reports.
Excel incorporates Power Query (also called Get & Transform) technology to provide greater capability when importing, refreshing, and authenticating data sources, managing Power Query data sources, and shaping the data into a table that fits your requirements.
Using a list of soccer championships as an example, use Power Query to take raw data that you found on a website and turn it into a well-formatted table. Watch how query steps and corresponding formulas are created for each task in the Query Settings pane under Applied Steps and in the Formula bar.
Use Power Query in Excel to import data into Excel from a wide variety of popular data sources, including CSV, XML, JSON, PDF, SharePoint, SQL, and more.
With Power Query (known as Get & Transform in Excel) and Power Pivot in Excel, you'll spend less time manipulating data, and more time driving impact. Watch this 2-minute video to learn how.
Power Query is a technology embedded in Excel and other Microsoft products designed to help you shape your data. In Excel, select the Data tab on the ribbon to see the Get & Transform Data and Queries & Connections groups.
Use both to shape your data in Excel so you can explore and visualize it in PivotTables, PivotCharts, and Power BI. In short, with Power Query you get your data into Excel, either in worksheets or the Excel Data Model.
To open a query, locate one previously loaded from the Power Query Editor, select a cell in the data, and then select Query > Edit. For more information see Create, load, or edit a query in Excel.
