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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Data cleaning is a crucial step in the data analysis process. Inaccurate, incomplete, or inconsistent data can lead to flawed insights and poor decision-making. Fortunately, Excel 365’s Power ...

As Miguel Llopis of the Power Query team explains here and here, when you make certain changes to a table in the Power Pivot window the connection from your Power Query query to the Excel Data Model ...

Learn how to streamline Excel tasks with Power Query and VBA, ... Using VBA, you can automate the disabling of the “Enable Background Refresh” setting for all queries in your workbook.

The Power Query technique is eerily similar to a similar malware distribution method detailed in 2017 by SensePost, which abused another Excel feature for importing data in Excel files, namely ...