Power Query For Excel Mac

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Power Query is a free add-in that can be downloaded here: Download the Power Query add-in. Once enabled, Power Query functionality is available from the Power Query tab on the ribbon. Excel for Microsoft 365 for Mac. If you're a Microsoft 365 subscriber, you can refresh existing Power Query query queries and use VBA to create and edit new. Power Query has been available for Excel since 2010. Here is how to add Power Query according to your Excel version.: Good news, you do not need to download Power Query for Excel 2019, 2016 or in Office 365. You can find it in the “Data” ribbon under the button “Get & Transform”.

Power query is a great tool built by Microsoft that will help you work with data in Excel. This tool is great for connecting to various external data sources, querying and transforming data, or cleaning and parsing data.

  • Web pages, Facebook
  • Excel, CSV, XML, Text or Hadoop (HDFS) Files
  • A Folder
  • Various databases like MS Access, SQL Server, MySQL, Microsoft Azure SQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, PostgreSQL, Sybase, Teradata, OData etc…

This is available as an add-in for excel 2010 professional plus or 2013 and comes already built in for Excel 2016.

You can download Excel Power Query here from Microsoft.

Unfortunately, if you’re not running Excel 2010 professional plus or 2013, then you will need to upgrade to Excel 2016 in order to use this feature as it’s not available for previous versions of Excel. Mac user are also out of luck.

There are both a 32-bit and 64-bit versions and which one you choose will depend on the version of Excel which you have installed.

Excel 2010

To check what version you have:

  1. Go to the “File” tab.
  2. Go to the “Help” section.
  3. Here you will see the product version, if it says professional plus 2010, then you’re in luck.
  4. Here you will either see 32-bit or 64-bit. Take note and download the correct Power Query add-in version accordingly.

Excel 2013

To check what version you have:

  1. Go to the “File” tab.
  2. Go to the “Account” section.
  3. Here you will see the product version.
  4. Click on the “About Excel” button.
  5. In the screen that pops up, at the top you will either see 32-bit or 64-bit. Take note and download the correct Power Query add-in version accordingly.
Power query for excel 2013

Excel 2016

Power query comes pre-installed in Excel 2016 but has been renamed to “Get & Transform” and is under the Data tab in the ribbon. If you have Excel 2016, then you don’t need to do anything to use it.

Download The Add-In

Go to the Microsoft website:

  1. Select your preferred language.
  2. Click the download button.

Select The Correct Version

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  1. Select either the 32-bit or 64-bit version depending on your version of Excel.
  2. Click the next button.

Run The Setup Wizard

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Make sure Excel is closed and then click the download from the download bar from your browser.

Follow The Setup

Follow the steps in the Setup Wizard.

Power Query Is Now Ready To Use

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Now the next time you open up Excel, Power Query will be available to use under its own tab.