Data comes from all kinds of sources and Microsoft Power Query can you when you need to combine foreign data. It’s a bit easier than trying to do so in Microsoft Excel sometimes.

Use Excel’s “Get Data from Folder” feature to import and combine multiple trial balance files into a single query. Clean and transform data using Power Query to prepare it for analysis.

The data must be a Table object, but don’t worry about that – if it isn’t a Table, Power Query will prompt you to format it as a Table before continuing. Figure B shows the data in Power Query.

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Advanced Excel options TRANSFORMING THE FILE Transforming the file begins with opening a blank workbook. In Excel 2016, Power Query is accessed by clicking on the Data tab and then clicking on the ...

Specifically, you can use Power Query to import a single dataset like an Excel workbook, a table from a website, or a database. Alternatively, you can import multiple datasets from worksheets in an ...