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Cleaning Excel Data With Power Query Straight to the Point
Cleaning Excel Data With Power Query Straight to the Point
Cleaning Excel Data With Power Query Straight to the Point
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Cleaning Excel Data With Power Query Straight to the Point

By Oz du Soleil

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Author Oz Du Soleil's area of frustration with Excel is cleaning data. From his earliest days with Excel, he has found himself constantly needing to fix names that are ALLCAPS, peel addresses away from phone numbers, and fixing all the many other things that prevent data from being useful. In this intro to Power Query, Oz shows you five core techniques in Excel Power Query: Splitting data, Filling blanks, Joining data sets, grouping and summarizing, and adding columns using Column From Examples.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
Release dateMar 1, 2019
ISBN9781615471492
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

    © 2019 by Tickling Keys, Inc.

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information or storage retrieval system without written permission from the publisher.

    All terms known in this book known to be trademarks have been appropriately capitalized. Trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are not affiliated with Holy Macro! Books

    Every effort has been made to make this book as complete and accurate as possible, but no warranty or fitness is implied. The information is provided on an as is basis. The authors and the publisher shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damages arising from the information contained in this book.

    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

    About the Author

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