Microsoft Power Query Mac
Do you often import data into Excel? Do you ever need to shape your data before you analyze it and build your reports? We are excited to let you know that your get-data experience in Excel is about to change forever. In Excel 2016 we have integrated Power Query technology into the Data ribbon under the Get & Transform section. Power Query technology enhances the self-service business analytics experience in Excel by simplifying data discovery, access and collaboration.
Prior to the release of Excel 2016, Microsoft Power Query for Excel functioned as an Excel add-in that was downloaded and installed on Excel 2010 and 2013. In Excel 2016 we integrated the Power Query technology and experience into Excel. Power Query is no longer an add-in but is a native Excel feature from the Data tab, under the Get & Transform section.
In addition, most of the features in the Get & Transform section are now available for all users on all Office plans.
If you are not familiar with Power Query, here is a short summary of what you can now achieve in Excel 2016 with this new technology.
- Data connectivity—Connect to many new data sources, such as Facebook and Salesforce, to import the data into Excel 2016.
- Data shaping—Extract a preview of the data and load it to the Query Editor to define transformation steps that will allow you to transform the data to the format that meets your needs, such as remove, group, pivot or unpivot columns, and filter rows.
- Data catalog—You can find the data you need by searching the Power BI Enterprise catalog (a Power BI license is required).
- Repeatable refresh—Simply click the Refresh All button on the Data ribbon to repeat the import and transformation of the data to your workbook.
You can learn more about the new capabilities and how to use them here.
- Microsoft Power Query for Excel, is a new add-in that provides a seamless experience for data discovery, data transformation and enrichment for Information Workers, BI professionals and other Excel users.
- Jun 25, 2018 I need this to work on Excel 2016 for Mac and just learned that power query is not supported on Macs. Excel for Macs does recognize the tables, but cannot refresh them with source data. How do i get around this to work on Excel 2016 for Macs?
If you are familiar with the Power Query add-in in Excel 2010 and 2013, you know there are several advantages of having the Power Query technology native in Excel 2016, including:
Power Query works across several Microsoft products, so whatever you learn for Power Query in Excel can be applied to Power BI and other products. Custom connectors. Easily extend Power Query by creating your own connectors and data transformations if you need to, that can also easily be shared and used by others.
- It’s always there—No longer a separate downloadable add-in. The Power Query technology is now available as part of Excel 2016, so you can rely on everyone using Excel 2016 to have it and be able to consume your workbooks.
- No complex activation—The Get & Transform group is visible and active by default on the Data tab.
- Undo support—Refresh and Edit Query operations on queries can be undone. You can refresh your query and keep all your previous actions in the Undo stack as well.
(In the image above we highlighted the Refresh Data and Edit Query Properties operations completed in the Workbook Queries task pane. Excel 2016 kept these operations in its Undo/Redo stack. In earlier versions, any Power Query operation deleted the Undo/Redo stack.)
Click on the Change Case icon in the Clean group on the Ablebits Data tab.The Change case pane displays to the left of your worksheet. Press the Change case button to see the result. Note: If you want to keep the original version of your table, check the Back up worksheet box.With Cell Cleaner for Excel the changing case routine seems to be much easier, doesn't it?Besides changing text case Cell Cleaner can help you to convert numbers in the text format to the number format, delete unwanted characters and excess spaces in your Excel table. Microsoft ecxel mac 16.26. And check out how useful the add-in can be for you. Select the case you need from the list.
- Object Model support—You can automate your queries with Object Model and develop your dream, an automated ETL Self-Service solution. With Macro Recording you can capture your query operations and generate VBA code that automates the query creation along with your report generation and customization on Excel. To learn more on Object Model support you can download this demo. More details on the Object Model interface is coming soon.
You can learn more about Power Query technology, which is available in the Get & Transform group in the Data tab, here.
Try the new capabilities out for yourself!
Try these new capabilities now by downloading the Office 2016 Preview for Windows and then share your ideas for features and improvements in Excel.
-->Power Query is the Microsoft Data Connectivity and Data Preparation technology that enables business users to seamlessly access data stored in hundreds of data sources and reshape it to fit their needs, with an easy to use, engaging, and no-code user experience.
Supported data sources include a wide range of file types, databases, Microsoft Azure services, and many other third-party online services. Power Query also provides a Custom Connectors SDK so that third parties can create their own data connectors and seamlessly plug them into Power Query.
The Power Query Editor is the primary data preparation experience, allowing users to apply over 300 different data transformations by previewing data and selecting transformations in the user experience. These data transformation capabilities are common across all data sources, regardless of the underlying data source limitations.
Where to use Power Query
Power Query Mac
Power Query is natively integrated in several Microsoft products, including the following.
| Product Name | Overview |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Power BI | Power Query enables data analysts and report authors to connect and transform data as part of creating Power BI reports using Power BI Desktop. |
| Microsoft Excel | Power Query enables Excel users to import data from a wide range of data sources into Excel for analytics and visualizations. Starting with Excel 2016, Power Query capabilities are natively integrated and can be found under the “Get & Transform” section of the Data tab in the Excel Desktop ribbon. Excel 2010 and 2013 users can also leverage Power Query by installing the Microsoft Power Query for Excel add-in. |
| Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools for Visual Studio | Business Intelligence Developers can create Azure Analysis Services and SQL Server Analysis Services tabular models using SQL Server Data Tools for Visual Studio. Within this experience, users can leverage Power Query to access and reshape data as part of defining tabular models. |
| Microsoft Common Data Service for Apps | Common Data Service (CDS) for Apps lets you securely store and manage data that's used by business applications. Data within CDS for Apps is stored within a set of entities. An entity is a set of records used to store data, similar to how a table stores data within a database. CDS for Apps includes a base set of standard entities that cover typical scenarios, but you can also create custom entities specific to your organization and populate them with data using Power Query. App makers can then use PowerApps to build rich applications using this data. |
How Power Query helps with data acquisition
Business users spend up to 80% of their time on data preparation, delaying the time to analysis and decision making. There are many challenges that cause this situation, and Power Query helps address many of them.
| Existing Challenge | How does Power Query help? |
|---|---|
| Finding and connecting to data is too difficult | Power Query enables connectivity to a wide range (100s) of data sources, including data of all sizes and shapes. |
| Experiences for data connectivity are too fragmented | Consistency of experience, and parity of query capabilities over all data sources with Power Query. |
| Data often needs to be reshaped before consumption | Highly interactive and intuitive experience for rapidly and iteratively building queries over any data source, any size. |
| Any shaping is one-off and not repeatable | When using Power Query to access and transform data, users are defining a repeatable process (query) that can be easily refreshed in the future to get up-to-date data. In the event that the process/query needs to be modified to account for underlying data or schema changes, Power Query provides users with the ability to modify existing queries using the same interactive and intuitive experience that they used when initially defining their queries. |
| Volume (data sizes), Velocity (rate of change) and Variety (breadth of data sources and data shapes) | Power Query offers the ability to work against a subset of the entire data set in order to define the required data transformations, allowing users to easily filter down and transform their data to a manageable size. Power Query queries can be refreshed manually or by leveraging schedule refresh capabilities in specific products (such as Power BI) or even programmatically (using Excel’s Object Model). Power Query provides connectivity to hundreds of data sources and over 350 different types of data transformations for each of these sources, allowing users to work with data from any source and in any shape. |
Next steps
Microsoft Power Query For Excel Mac
Next, learn how to use Power Query in Power BI Desktop.