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Power Query & Power Pivot in MS Excel – A Quickstart Guide

This Quickstart guide will give you the skills you need to get started with these powerful features.

Created byRoss Maynard
BeginnerUpdated Jul 5, 2022
Power Query & Power Pivot in MS Excel – A Quickstart Guide

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleUse Power Query to load data from an external source into Microsoft Excel
  • check_circleClean and manipulate external data before loading it into Excel
  • check_circleConsolidate separate files with Power Query
  • check_circleUpdate Excel tables with new data in the same format
  • check_circleUse Power Query to “unpivot” report tables to prepare the data for analysis
  • check_circleExplain the core functionality of Power Pivot
  • check_circleLink data tables together in the Power Pivot data model
  • check_circleCreate pivot tables that draw data from several source data tables
  • check_circleCreate performance measures and new analysis in the Power Pivot data model
  • check_circleUse the most popular DAX query language functions in Power Pivot

About This Course

Power Query and Power Pivot are two tools available in Microsoft Excel. If you are serious about data analysis, then you need to know how to use these tools. This Quickstart guide will give you the skills you need to get started with these powerful features.

The Power Query tool allows you to import external data and then modify it to meet your needs, before loading it into Excel. These editing tasks are all things you can do manually in Excel, but Power Query greatly speeds things up when you have a large volume of data.

The Power Pivot tool allows you to connect multiple data tables in an extended pivot table. Power Pivot also introduces new analysis and query tools to further enhance data analysis.

If data analysis is your thing, then this course will help you get up to speed with these feature-filled tools. Through screen-capture video, the course provides a step-by-step guide to the foundation skills needed to use both Power Query and Power Pivot effectively. The course is designed to make your first steps into Power Query easy and to build your confidence to use them on your own.

Both Power Query and Power Pivot are also available in Microsoft Power BI – the data visualisation suite. Once you have learned how to use Power Query and Power Pivot in Excel with this course, you’ll have a head start in getting to grips with Power BI.

Get up to speed with Power Query and Power Pivot in Microsoft Excel with this Quickstart guide.

Course Content

2 activities • 9 videos • duration: 2h 31m

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Section 18 videos • 1 quiz • 2.1 hours
  • videocamLesson 1: Power Query Quickstart
    Duration 22:07
  • videocamLesson 2: Power Query Combining Sheets
    Duration 12:26
  • videocamLesson 3: Unpivoting a Table
    Duration 8:23
  • videocamLesson 4: Power Pivot Quickstart
    Duration 22:36
  • videocamLesson 5: Power Pivot Adding Data and Functionality
    Duration 16:21
  • videocamLesson 6: Key DAX Functions for Power Pivot
    Duration 26:40
  • videocamLesson 7: The DAX CALCULATE Function
    Duration 14:43
  • videocamLesson 8: Key Learning Points
    Duration 4:53
  • quizCourse Quiz
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Bonus video-Part11 videos • 23 min

Your Instructor

Ross Maynard

Business author and consultant, specialising in performance measurement and improvement

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I am a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in the UK and work as an author of business courses and a process improvement consultant. I have over 30 years' experience and live near Stirling in Scotland, with my wife, daughter and Cocker Spaniel. I aim to make my courses accessible and understandable. My courses focus on business topics including KPIs, performance measurement, approaches to business improvement, Agile and Lean. I hope you enjoy my courses.

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