Learn how to automate formatting and combine multiple sheets in Excel with Power Query. Plus, how to create a Pivot Table & Chart from your merged data. Streamline your data clean-up workflow and save valuable time while ensuring your data is consistently formatted with just a simple click of a button. No more manual adjustments, just efficient data management.

In this real-life example of a monthly report containing pay dates and 401k elections for employees, typically, you'd have to perform various manual tasks, such as deleting columns, reordering data, and adding calculated columns every month. With Power Query, you can streamline this process, automatically apply formatting changes, and load data into a master sheet effortlessly, making it easy to analyze and report on cumulative data.

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00:00 Automate Formatting & Merge Sheets
00:24 Data Setup for Power Query
01:28 Access Power Query Editor
03:00 Transform Data in Power Query
06:30 Close & Load Data to Excel
07:05 Add New Workbook to Data Set
08:00 Create Pivot Table & Chart

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