About This Course

Master Power Query, Excel’s most powerful tool since Pivot Tables, and revolutionise the way you work with data. Learn to clean, transform, and combine data from multiple sources, automate repetitive tasks, and handle large datasets efficiently. Discover advanced techniques for reshaping data, creating custom transformations, and streamlining workflows—all without the need for complex formulas or VBA. By the end, you’ll work faster, smarter, and more confidently in Excel.

Prerequisites: Delegates should be confident using Excel and have a good understanding of formulas, worksheets and basic data management. Previous programming experience is not required.

Course Outline

During this course, participants will develop the skills to clean, transform, and automate data processes using Excel Power Query.

  • Introduction to Power Query – Navigate the Power Query Editor, perform basic transformations, and assess data quality.
  • Connecting and Loading Data – Import data from multiple sources including CSV, web, SharePoint, and email.
  • Common Transformations – Clean and format data using filtering, splitting, replacing values, and managing data types.
  • Pivoting, Transposing, and Reshaping Data – Restructure datasets for effective analysis.
  • Advanced Transformations – Apply conditional columns, merge and append datasets, and perform fuzzy matching.
  • Data Cleaning and Error Handling – Identify and fix errors, manage missing values, and create clean datasets.
  • Time and Date Transformations – Perform calculations such as durations, age, and date differences.
  • Automation and Data Models – Automate workflows using Applied Steps and leverage the Data Model for reporting.

Who should attend

This course is ideal for Excel users who work with large or complex datasets and want to improve efficiency through automation. It is particularly valuable for professionals in data analysis, reporting, or operations who need to clean, combine, and transform data quickly and accurately.

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Learning Outcomes

  • Navigate Power Query and perform essential data transformations confidently.
  • Connect and import data from multiple sources into Excel.
  • Clean and prepare datasets for accurate analysis and reporting.
  • Reshape and enhance data using advanced transformations, merging, and custom columns.
  • Automate data workflows and build powerful reports using the Data Model.

Course Reviews

Excel Intermediate

Course was one of the best I have ever attended in professional development and will make me more efficient

Anon
Asmodee UK
June 15, 2026

Excel Intermediate

I was amazed by Tony's knowledge and his ability to convey things concisely and clearly. I really enjoyed the course and am confident in my ability to apply some of the knowledge to my day to day work which is what I wanted to get out of it.

Anon
Crown Agents Bank
June 11, 2026

Excel Introduction

Excel - Gary help me loads with a spreadsheet I had! I’ll book onto the intermediate

Anon
Wessex Water
June 2, 2026

Excel

Gary made the information very attainable, it was good we could do the work alongside him.

Anon
Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council
June 2, 2026

Excel Advanced

Tony Barrett is highly knowledgeable in Excel and was able to explain each concept in a way that made it easy for me to understand how to apply it directly to my role.

Anon
CWG
June 16, 2026

PowerPoint

Great course, Louise, great to learn small everyday skills to help speed up

Anon
Stellantis
June 16, 2026

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