06 Power Query Excel Course

Advanced Excel 2: Power Query Training for Teams

Stop rebuilding the same reports every month. This course teaches your team to use Power Query to connect, clean and combine data from multiple sources, then refresh it all with one click.

By the end of this course, your team will be able to:

  • Import data from workbooks, CSV files and folders
  • Clean and reshape messy data without manual edits
  • Merge and append queries to combine data from different sources
  • Build reports that update with a single refresh
  • Load clean data into tables and PivotTables for reporting

Prerequisite:
Participants should have completed our Advanced Excel course or work at that level. No Power Query experience is needed.

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About course

Course Details

Course delivery method
Delivered onsite at your premises or live via Microsoft Teams, as private training for your team.
Course duration
One-day course. It can also be delivered in shorter sessions to suit your team.





Who This Course Is For

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This course suits teams that spend hours copying, pasting and cleaning data before they can report on it. It’s ideal for:

Participants should be confident Excel users at Advanced level. If your team isn’t there yet, start with our Advanced Excel course.

What you will learn

Topics Covered

Getting Started with Power Query

  • What Power Query Is and When to Use It
  • The Power Query Editor
  • Connecting to Workbooks and CSV Files
  • Understanding Applied Steps
  • Loading Data Back to Excel
  • Refreshing Queries

Cleaning and Transforming Data

  • Removing Columns, Rows and Duplicates
  • Splitting and Merging Columns
  • Changing Data Types
  • Replacing Values and Fixing Errors
  • Unpivoting Data for Reporting

Combining Data

  • Appending Queries
  • Merging Queries
  • Understanding Join Types
  • Combining Files from a Folder
  • Working with Multiple Data Sources
  • Managing Query Dependencies

Building Refreshable Reports

  • Loading to Tables and PivotTables
  • Grouping and Summarising Data
  • Adding Custom Columns
  • Using Parameters for Flexible Reports
  • Introduction to the Data Model
  • Automating Monthly Reporting

Benefits

Cut hours of manual data preparation from every reporting cycle.
Clean messy data once, then reuse the same steps every month.
Combine data from multiple sources without copying and pasting.
Reduce errors from manual edits and broken formulas.
Build reports anyone on your team can refresh.

FAQs

Do we need any extra software?

No. Power Query is built into Microsoft 365 and recent versions of Excel for Windows.

Is the training customised?

Yes. We can build examples around your team’s own data and reports.

Can it be delivered online?

Yes. We run this course live via Microsoft Teams, or onsite at your premises anywhere in Australia.

How many people can attend?

To keep sessions practical and give everyone time to ask questions, we train up to 15 participants per class from your organisation.

Do participants need to know Power Query?

No. Participants should be confident Advanced Excel users; the course starts with the Power Query basics.

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