In this step-by-step tutorial, you will learn how to consolidate data from multiple files using Get & Transform (Power Query) in Microsoft Excel. This process is invaluable when you need to collect and analyze data spread across various files. Ideal for those who regularly manipulate data in Excel, our video walks you through every step, ensuring you combine information effectively without hassle.
This is the easiest way to combine multiple Excel files from a folder into a single workbook and create a pivot table or report based on the consolidated data.
What you will learn:
️ Setting up Power Query: Learn how to connect Power Query to a folder containing multiple Excel files.
️ Data Filtering and Cleaning: Learn how to filter unnecessary files and clean your data for accurate analysis.
️ Data Combination: Understand how to merge data from different files into one complete dataset.
️ Creating PivotTables or Excel Tables: Learn how to transform your consolidated data into a standard PivotTable or Excel table for deeper analysis.
00:00 Consolidate data from multiple Excel files
01:28 Get and transform data from multiple files in a folder
02:37 Merge and append data in Power Query
05:55 Clean data in Power Query
07:10 Load data as pivot table to Excel
09:21 Load data as table to Excel
09:53 Conclusion
Many of us send templates to colleagues and then face the challenge of somehow consolidating multiple Excel files. Adding the data into a single Excel workbook can be a long and tedious process.
Of course, a solution to this problem has always been Excel VBA. But learning VBA takes time and may prove too difficult for many Excel users.
In this tutorial, I'll show you a much simpler approach! We will use Excel Get and Transform, aka Power Query, to combine data from multiple Excel workbooks. We'll connect directly to a folder containing the files and use the Combine Files functionality in Power Query. Every time you drop an Excel file into this folder, the data will be added and consolidated with the rest. You can then create an Excel table for the added data or create a pivot table from multiple Excel files.
The great thing about using Power Query to merge data from Excel files is that you don't need to write any code! You just need to click a few buttons to add the file data.
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