From the course: Excel Power Query Tips and Techniques

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,700 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Rename queries

Rename queries

From the course: Excel Power Query Tips and Techniques

Start my 1-month free trial

Rename queries

“

- [Instructor] We got a lot of data here. We've got eight queries over on the left side that you can see. We've got four tables here. We've got tables here. We got tables all over the land. All right. But look what's happening. Over in the queries and connections, we see we've got an airports query, that means something to us in the data. But then merge one, merge two, what are those? Those are generic names that Power Query made when I did the merges. So it would help us to stay organized for me to rename these as something useful. So what is this merge one? Okay, that has the managers, the budgets, and the projects. So I'm going to right click, rename. Call this projects and budgets. Enter. All right, merge two. Let's go into this so that I can show you another way to change the query name. We'll go to edit. Now what was this? This is contractor details. So over here where it says merge two, I'm…

Contents