Learn how Excel’s Power Query can simplify data cleaning, automate tasks, and transform your workflow. Save time and reduce errors!

This guide by Excel expert Chandoo will walk you through the ins and outs of Power Query, from web scraping to connecting to local network files, making your data transformation tasks a breeze.

Highlighting or even deleting duplicate records in Excel is simple but listing them isn't as easy. Fortunately, you can use Power Query to easily display a list of duplicate values or records.

SEE: Explore 6 ways to save time using Flash Fill in Microsoft Excel. How to use Power Query to parse data in Microsoft Excel Power Query is available to Microsoft Excel 2010 users and later.

How to Perform Multiple Queries on an Excel Spreadsheet. Using the External Data Connection feature in Excel, you can acquire information from external sources, such as Access and SQL Server. The ...

You can directly run SQL queries on a database from Excel. The traditional method was to create a Macro and write a long Visual Basic code by using ADO connection to get connected with the source.

Clicking this option launches the Power Query Editor, a separate window within Microsoft Excel where you can filter out the files you don't want to include in the combining process.

Excel provides a handy feature called Enable Background Refresh in Power Query’s properties. This feature keeps updating imported external data continuously while you may work on other worksheets.