Power Query is one of Excel’s most useful features and one of its most overlooked. If you regularly work with data that needs importing, cleaning, or restructuring, this episode is essential listening.
Mike uses a practical scenario, a weekly expense claims process that takes nearly an hour every Monday, to show exactly what problem Power Query solves. Once set up, the entire import, clean, and transform process can be reduced to a single click of the Refresh button.
The episode covers how to connect to data sources, why importing a CSV via Power Query is safer than opening it directly in Excel, and how the Query Editor records every transformation as an editable step, giving you a complete audit trail of everything you’ve done to your data.
Mike also touches on M, the programming language running behind the scenes, and explains why most users will never need to write a single line of it.
If you’ve been copying, pasting, and manually tidying data week after week, Power Query is the feature that will change how you work.
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