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Excel Masterclass: data cleaning and automation with Power Query

Boost your Excel skills with essential tools for data handling, automation, and analysis: available as single sessions or a full discounted course

Overview

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Power Query is one of the most powerful and transformative tools in Excel — and a must-have skill for anyone who works with data. In this session, we’ll explore how Power Query can revolutionise the way accountants and analysts prepare, clean, and combine data.

Designed for professionals who routinely deal with raw, messy, or repetitive data tasks, this session will guide you through the essential techniques that save time, reduce errors, and automate manual work — all with refreshable, repeatable steps.

Key features

  • Connecting to External Data Sources - Learn how to import data from CSVs, folders, PDFs, and other structured files, including automating folder-based reporting.
  • Cleaning and Transforming Data - Explore practical steps to reshape data: removing rows, splitting columns, changing data types, unpivoting, and more — all without formulas or VBA.
  • Merging and Appending Queries - Combine data from multiple tables, match lists, and stitch together files with ease using the powerful Merge and Append tools.
  • Loading to Excel and Beyond - Understand how to send your cleaned data to Excel tables, PivotTables, or the data model for seamless reporting and analysis.

By the end of the session, you’ll be equipped to automate repetitive tasks, prepare cleaner data for decision-making, and eliminate manual cut-and-paste jobs from your workflow — making Power Query an indispensable part of your Excel workflow.

Alan Murray

Alan Murray is an Excel trainer, founder of Computergaga.com and author of the Advanced Excel Success and Advanced Excel Formulas books. He has been helping people in Excel for over 23 years. He loves training and the joy he gets from knowing he is making peoples working lives easier. Alan’s Computergaga YouTube channel has over 650 videos and over 50 million views. He also runs the monthly London Excel Meetup Group, where people learn, network, and enjoy each other’s company.

The handout materials have been shared with you. Please keep them handy for practice during the session.

Thsi event was recorded on 13th Nov 2025.

Price

Price (excluding VAT) 105 GBP

Location

United Kingdom

Date & time

On demand

Enquiries

Email enquiries UKCL@accaglobal.com

Course provider

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