This course is designed for advanced Excel users who want to streamline their data preparation process. Are you spending too much time cleaning, organizing, and reformatting data before diving into analysis? With Excel’s Get and Transform tools (also known as Power Query), you can automate repetitive tasks such as removing unwanted rows or columns, combining data from multiple sources, and resolving layout inconsistencies—all without requiring macros or VBA.

Once configured, these transformations can be applied with a single click of the Refresh button, saving you hours of manual work.The course uses practical examples with data sources like Excel workbooks, CSV files, and text files, but the principles taught are versatile and can be applied to a wide range of data sources.

Key Takeaways:

• Learn to create robust query connections to various data sources.
• Master techniques for cleaning and preparing data for analysis in tools like PivotTables.
• Combine and consolidate data from multiple datasets into a single, usable format.
• Understand how to automate data transformations for consistent and repeatable workflows.

By the end of this class, you’ll have fundamentals to prepare your data for analysis, letting you focus on insights rather than manual tasks.