Microsoft Power Query for Excel
by Microsoft
Power Query for Excel is an add-in that simplifies data discovery, transformation and enrichment for Excel users.
Microsoft Power Query for Excel is a powerful data connector and transformation tool that enables users to easily access and analyze data from a wide range of sources. The software allows users to quickly access, transform, and combine data from multiple sources, allowing them to create powerful insights and visualizations that can be used to inform and drive better business decisions. With Power Query, users can quickly uncover hidden trends, find patterns and correlations, and gain insights into their data in ways that would be impossible with traditional methods.
Power Query provides a unified, easy-to-use user experience to access, transform, and combine data from multiple sources, such as databases, spreadsheets, text files, web services, and more. It also enables users to create powerful data mashups, combining data from different sources and transforming it into insights that are easily consumed by other users. Additionally, Power Query provides a wide range of features for working with data, such as the ability to filter, sort, group, and summarize data.
Features of Microsoft Power Query for Excel:
- Easy to use user interface for accessing and transforming data from multiple sources
- Create powerful data mashups, combining data from different sources
- Filter, sort, group, and summarize data
- Create insights from data that can be easily consumed by other users
- Ability to access data from databases, spreadsheets, text files, web services, and more
- Automatically detect data types, relationships, and anomalies
- Easy to deploy on any platform
- Automatically detect and apply data transformations
- Supports multiple languages including English, French, Spanish, German, and Chinese
- Create custom formulas to transform data
- Create scheduled refreshes to update data automatically
- Create parameterized queries with dynamic inputs
- Publish data to Power BI to create interactive reports
- Publish data to SharePoint to share with other users
- Automatically detect relationships between data sources
- Easily create and share data queries
- Create data models to explore relationships between data sources
- Create data visualizations for easy consumption
- Support for R and Python for data analysis and transformation
- Create custom data connectors to connect to any data source
- Support for Microsoft Azure for storing and analyzing data
- Connect to the Microsoft PowerApps platform for building custom apps
- Comprehensive security features for data privacy and protection
- Advanced data analysis and transformation features
- Support for data wrangling, cleaning, and preparation
- Support for Power BI Desktop, dataflows, and more
Power Query provides a unified, easy-to-use user experience to access, transform, and combine data from multiple sources, such as databases, spreadsheets, text files, web services, and more. It also enables users to create powerful data mashups, combining data from different sources and transforming it into insights that are easily consumed by other users. Additionally, Power Query provides a wide range of features for working with data, such as the ability to filter, sort, group, and summarize data.
Features of Microsoft Power Query for Excel:
- Easy to use user interface for accessing and transforming data from multiple sources
- Create powerful data mashups, combining data from different sources
- Filter, sort, group, and summarize data
- Create insights from data that can be easily consumed by other users
- Ability to access data from databases, spreadsheets, text files, web services, and more
- Automatically detect data types, relationships, and anomalies
- Easy to deploy on any platform
- Automatically detect and apply data transformations
- Supports multiple languages including English, French, Spanish, German, and Chinese
- Create custom formulas to transform data
- Create scheduled refreshes to update data automatically
- Create parameterized queries with dynamic inputs
- Publish data to Power BI to create interactive reports
- Publish data to SharePoint to share with other users
- Automatically detect relationships between data sources
- Easily create and share data queries
- Create data models to explore relationships between data sources
- Create data visualizations for easy consumption
- Support for R and Python for data analysis and transformation
- Create custom data connectors to connect to any data source
- Support for Microsoft Azure for storing and analyzing data
- Connect to the Microsoft PowerApps platform for building custom apps
- Comprehensive security features for data privacy and protection
- Advanced data analysis and transformation features
- Support for data wrangling, cleaning, and preparation
- Support for Power BI Desktop, dataflows, and more
Power Query for Excel enables users to easily connect to and extract data from a variety of data sources and transform it into the desired format.
Microsoft Power Query for Excel requires the following:
• Microsoft Excel 2010 or later
• Windows 7 or later
• .NET Framework 3.5 or later
• Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime
• Microsoft Office Primary Interop Assemblies
• Microsoft Windows Installer 4.5 or later
• An active Internet connection
• Microsoft Excel 2010 or later
• Windows 7 or later
• .NET Framework 3.5 or later
• Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime
• Microsoft Office Primary Interop Assemblies
• Microsoft Windows Installer 4.5 or later
• An active Internet connection
PROS
Enables easy extraction, transformation, and loading of data.
Provides advanced data modeling and relationship functionality.
Saves time in repetitive data preparation tasks.
Provides advanced data modeling and relationship functionality.
Saves time in repetitive data preparation tasks.
CONS
Steep learning curve for non-technical users.
Limited functionality compared to dedicated ETL tools.
May slow down larger Excel files significantly.
Limited functionality compared to dedicated ETL tools.
May slow down larger Excel files significantly.
James F.
Microsoft Power Query for Excel is an excellent software for quick data transformation and analysis. I have been using it for some time now and I am very pleased with its features. It is very user friendly and simple to use. It also integrates with other Microsoft Office programs, making it very convenient to use. It allows me to easily manipulate large amounts of data in a very short period of time. The graphical user interface is also very intuitive and easy to use. I have also found that it allows me to save changes to my queries so that I can quickly modify them later. Overall, I am very satisfied with the features Microsoft Power Query for Excel provides.
Callum I.
I found Microsoft Power Query for Excel to be reall useful for comples data analysis tasks, and it makes working with Excel a lot less tedioius and time consuming.
David Hirota
Microsoft Power Query for Excel is a data analysis tool that allows users to import and transform data from various sources. It provides a user-friendly interface to clean, transform, and combine data from different sources before loading it into Excel. The software enables users to access and analyze data from multiple sources, including databases, spreadsheets, and web sources. It also offers a wide range of data transformation options, including filtering, pivoting, and merging. With its intuitive interface, users can easily create complex data queries without writing any code.
Theo Rickel
Microsoft Power Query for Excel is a powerful data cleansing and transformation tool that allows users to easily import, shape, and combine data from various sources.
Luke
Intuitive, simplifies data extraction and transformation tasks.
Ruaridh
Intuitive, powerful data manipulation tool.
