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Pivot and unpivot data with Power Query - Microsoft Excel Tutorial
From the course: Excel Business Intelligence: Power Query
Pivot and unpivot data with Power Query
- [Instructor] Okay, so by this point you should be pretty comfortable with those basic power query and query editing tools. Those number tools, those text tools, date-specific tools. They're all pretty user friendly and pretty easy to operate as I'm sure you've noticed. But there are some more interesting ones, and some tools that are a little bit less intuitive to work with, and let's cover a few of those now. We're going to start with pivoting and unpivoting. And it sounds a little bit nebulous, but basically the way I describe it is that pivoting is really just a fancy way to describe the process of turning distinct row values into their own columns. That's called pivoting. Or turning columns into rows, which is called unpivoting. Now you're probably reading this and saying okay, I understand all those words, but it's still not quite clicking. At least that was my experience. So hopefully this visual will help. Picture this little table. You just got one dimension and one…
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Power Query introduction27s
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Meet Power Query aka Get & Transform2m 40s
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The Query Editor3m 17s
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Options for loading data in Excel1m 40s
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Basic Power Query table transformations8m 6s
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Text-specific query editing tools10m 17s
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Number-specific query editing tools7m 41s
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Date-specific query editing tools7m 39s
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Create a rolling calendar with Power Query5m 2s
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Add index and conditional columns with Power Query7m 44s
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Group and aggregate data with Power Query7m 10s
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Modify Excel workbook queries4m 18s
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Merge queries7m 43s
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Append queries5m 49s
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Connect Excel to a folder of files9m 32s
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Excel Power Query best practices2m 42s
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Pivot and unpivot data with Power Query8m 52s
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