Add a query to an Excel

worksheet (Power Query)

This article applies to Power Query, a data analysis feature available
for Excel that lets you discover, combine and refine data. You may need to enable
Power Query in Excel. You can also download and install the most recent version of
Power Query for Excel, which automatically enables it. Power Query technology is
also built into thePower BI Designer, which is a stand-alone report authoring and
data transformation tool for Power BI.
IMPORTANT

For a very quick video on how to display Query Editor, see the end of this
article.
NOTE

In Power Query, you have several options to load queries into your workbook.
The Options dialog box lets you set default query load settings.

I need to
Load queries into your workbook
Fine-tune your load options
Load a query to the Excel Data Model
Set default query load settings

Load queries into your workbook

You have several options to load queries into your workbook:
1.

From Search results

2.

From the Navigator pane

3.

From the Query Editor

4.

From the Workbook Queries pane and the contextual Query ribbon tab

When you click Load To from the Workbook Queries pane, you can
only Load to worksheet or Load to Data Model. Other Load To options allow you
to fine-tune how you load a query. To learn the full set of load options, see How to
fine-tune your load options.
NOTE

Fine-tune your load options

With Power Query Load To options, you can

Select how you want to view your data.

Select where the data is loaded.

Add data to the Data Model.

Load a query to the Excel Data Model

NOTE

The steps in this section require Excel 2013.

An Excel Data Model is a relational data source composed from multiple tables
inside an Excel workbook. Within Excel, a Data Model is used transparently,
providing tabular data used in PivotTables, PivotCharts, and Power View reports.
With Power Query, data and annotations on the Data Model are preserved when
modifying the Load to Worksheetsetting of a query. Power Query does not reset
the query results in both the worksheet and the Data Model when modifying either
one of the two load settings.
To load a query to the Excel Data Model
1.

In the Load To dialog box, check Add the data to the Data Model. To learn
how to show the Load To dialog box, see Load queries into your workbook.

Set default query load settings

To set your default query load settings
1.
2.

In the Power Query ribbon tab, click Options.

In the Options dialog box, choose a Default Query Load Setting.

The Query Editor only appears when you load, edit, or create a new query
using Power Query. The following video shows the Query Editor window
NOTE

appearing after editing a query from an Excel workbook. To view the Query
Editor without loading or editing an existing workbook query, from the Get
External Data section in thePower Query ribbon tab, select From Other Sources
> Blank Query. The following video shows one way to display the Query Editor.

Applies To: Excel 2013, Excel 2010