Microsoft Excel – Power Query

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in connecting, cleaning, transforming, combining, and refreshing business data with Excel Power Query. The learning path progresses from essential concepts and planning to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

Learners work through realistic scenarios, guided demonstrations, applied exercises, and evidence-based reviews. Every topic is connected to workplace responsibilities, common risks, quality controls, and measurable outcomes.

The course helps professionals make informed decisions, identify failure points, communicate results, and create an actionable improvement plan for future projects.

What You Will Learn

• Explain the Power Query workflow, editor interface, queries, Applied Steps, data types, and load destinations
• Connect to workbooks, text files, folders, tables, databases, web sources, and approved organizational data
• Filter, sort, replace, split, merge, extract, fill, group, pivot, unpivot, and reshape data
• Profile columns, manage nulls and errors, standardize types, and validate transformation results
• Merge and append queries, combine files, use reference and duplicate queries, and manage dependencies
• Create reusable transformation patterns for monthly reporting, master data, and multi-source reconciliation
• Use parameters, custom columns, functions, basic M concepts, privacy settings, and query diagnostics
• Configure refresh, load behavior, documentation, exception handling, ownership, and operational support

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this course through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, solution reviews, and a final improvement plan. Learners repeatedly practice planning, implementation, evidence collection, testing, correction, and communication so the skills transfer confidently into real workplace situations.