Power Query in an Hour: Clean Messy Export Without Writing Code | Joseph Ogbenna
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Speaker: Joseph Ogbenna
Topic: Power Query in an Hour: Clean Messy Export Without Writing Code
Abstract:
The Challenge: We have all been there. You download a critical report from your CRM, ERP, or accounting system, and the formatting is a disaster. It is plagued with merged cells, blank rows, floating headers, and dates that Excel refuses to recognize. Instead of analyzing the data, you spend hours copying, pasting, and manually cleaning it up—only to have to repeat the exact same tedious process next week.
The Solution: Automated Cleaning, Zero Coding
It is time to break the cycle. In this focused, one-hour webinar, we will introduce you to Power Query—Excel’s most powerful built-in tool for data transformation. You do not need to be a programmer, and you do not need to know a single line of VBA. If you can point and click, you can automate your data cleanup.
We will walk through a real-world scenario, taking a notoriously ugly system export and transforming it into a clean, analysis-ready dataset in minutes. Most importantly, you will learn how to build a repeatable process so that next month’s export cleans itself with just the click of a "Refresh" button.
What You Will Learn
In just 60 minutes, we will cover the essential techniques to rescue your data:
- The Power Query Interface: How to seamlessly import messy CSVs and Excel workbooks into the Power Query Editor.
- The "Point-and-Click" Cleanup: Effortlessly remove blank rows, split combined text columns, and promote proper headers.
- Fixing Data Types: Stop fighting with text-formatted numbers and broken dates.
- Unpivoting Data: Transform wide, unmanageable reports into flat, PivotTable-ready data models.
- Future-Proofing Your Work: How to save your transformation steps so you never have to manually clean that specific report format again.
Profile:
Joseph Ogbenna is a specialized data analyst and analytics trainer who focuses on customer intelligence and business performance. With a technical background in SQL, Power BI, and Python, Joseph is an expert at transforming complex data into clear, actionable insights.
He is known for his ability to simplify high-level analytical concepts for professionals of all skill levels. In this live session, Joseph will demonstrate how to bridge the gap between traditional spreadsheets and the future of work by integrating AI Copilot into your daily Excel workflow.
Connect with the speaker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-ogbenna/
See you in the online live class session!
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/microsoft-excel-and-data-analysis-learning-community/events/315165715/
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Recordings of past sessions are available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0kdLm6FekrMWYBcervKPF_eAZk9dnoSI