Cleaning Excel Data With Power Query Straight to the Point
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Cleaning Excel Data With Power Query Straight to the Point - Oz du Soleil
Cleaning Excel Data With
Power Query
Straight to the Point
Oz du Soleil
Holy Macro! Books
PO Box 541731, Merritt Island FL 32953
Cleaning Excel Data with Power Query Straight to the Point
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First Published: March 2019
Author: Oz du Soleil
Copyeditor: Kitty Wilson
Cover Design: Suat M. Ozgur
Cover Illustration: Shannon Mattiza, 6'4 Productions
Indexer: Nellie Jay
Tech Editor: Bill Jelen
Screen Reader Captions: Deb Govern
Compositor: Jill Cabot
Published by: Holy Macro! Books, PO Box 541731, Merritt Island, FL 32953
Distributed by Independent Publishers Group, Chicago, IL
ISBN 978-1-61547-250-5 PDF, 978-1-61547-371-7 ePub, 978-1-61547-149-2 Mobi
Table of Contents
About the Author1
Acknowledgments1
INTRODUCTION1
So, What Is Power Query?2
When I Became a Believer…2
FIRST, SOME BACKGROUND FOR POWER QUERY3
Excel Versions3
Everything Happens via Queries3
Data Types5
Power Query Warnings5
GETTING DATA INTO POWER QUERY7
Importing Data from a Table or Range7
Importing Data from a Workbook8
FILL UP AND FILL DOWN12
PARSING TEXT16
Splitting Names by Delimiter17
Splitting into Rows20
SORTING IN POWER QUERY22
MERGING DATA: JOINING AND APPENDING25
Joins and Merging25
Full Outer Join: Creating a Master List33
Inner Join: Determining Who Registered and Attended38
Right and Left Anti Joins: Determining What’s over Here That’s Not over There43
RIGHT ANTI JOIN43
LEFT ANTI JOIN43
Left and Right Outer Joins: Power Query’s VLOOKUP44
LEFT OUTER JOIN44
RIGHT OUTER JOIN44
Appending Datasets45
GROUPING DATA47
REFRESHING AND UPDATING DATA49
ADDING COLUMNS50
Adding Conditional Columns50
Adding Multiple Conditions52
Adding Custom Columns55
Adding Custom Columns with Power Query Functions and Adding Whole Numbers to Dates58
Adding a Column Using Column from Examples59
CONCLUSION63