Learn how to integrate Power Query, an ETL tool, with Excel and use it to connect, transform, and load data from various sources. Enhance your data architecture skills with Power Query.

A year ago support for nested data types in Excel was announced on the Excel blog, but the announcement didn’t have much detail about what nested data types are and the docs are quite vague too. I was ...

Getting Started with Power Query. 1. Open Excel and ensure that the Data tab is visible. If it is not, you can enable it by going to File > Options > Customize Ribbon and checking the Data box.

Finish up with Power Query by clicking “Close & Load -> Close & Load to.” In the pop-up that opens, select “Only Create Connection” and check “Add this data to the Data Model.” Wait for the data to be ...

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.