Power Query Essentials: Importing, Filtering, and Cleaning Data

Save hours every week by automating your messy spreadsheet data.

Power Query Essentials: Importing, Filtering, and Cleaning Data

Power Query Essentials: Importing, Filtering, and Cleaning Data is built for anyone searching for practical Power Query training in Excel or Power BI. The course covers the full ETL process, from connecting to a data source through cleaning and shaping, to loading a finished table ready for reporting. Most people who search for help with messy spreadsheets face the same problems again: blank rows, mismatched text, duplicate records, and numbers saved as the wrong data type. This training tackles those pain points directly, so data cleaning stops being a manual chore and becomes a fast, repeatable process.

Core lessons cover importing data from CSV, PDF, and Excel files, then filtering and shaping columns with Power Query tools. You use the Applied Steps pane to track every transformation, work with data types, and apply techniques such as Fill Down, Replace Values, and Column from Examples to quickly clean inconsistent entries. Real examples run throughout the course: cleaning a monthly sales report with missing region names, splitting a combined name column into separate fields, and pulling a table directly from a PDF file. These scenarios reflect tasks that data analysts, report builders, and finance teams handle every week.

By the end of this training, you will have learned how to import data from almost any source, filter and clean it with confidence, and load it into Excel or Power BI as a reliable table. It suits analysts, business users, and anyone preparing for spreadsheet-heavy roles who want a faster, more accurate data workflow.

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Connect Power Query to CSV, PDF, and Excel data sources.
  • Filter rows and columns in Excel or Power BI reports.
  • Remove blank rows, duplicates, and inconsistent headers from data.
  • Standardise mismatched text values like region or product names.
  • Use Fill Down to auto-complete missing spreadsheet values.
  • Replace inconsistent text values across an entire data column.
  • Manage steps in the Power Query Applied Steps pane.
  • Split combined name columns into first and last names.
  • Merge columns into custom fields using Power Query.
  • Set correct data types for accurate Excel calculations.
  • Create a Column from Examples to match data patterns.
  • Load transformed data into Excel tables or Power BI.

Course Format

  • This is a video-led course. You can preview some videos below.
  • This course includes practice exercises.
  • This course is aimed at Excel users.

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This course includes an optional online quiz that will generate a course certificate upon completion.

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Course Curriculum


  Section 1: Introduction
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  Section 2: Power Query Fundamentals
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  Section 3: Power Query Filter, Cleaning, Shaping
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  Course Quiz and Certificate of Completion
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