Powerful trick to combine all Excel files in a folder AUTOMATICALLY

[@briandelaney6354]

Wow that's synchronistic. I was looking for exactly this yesterday evening for a project. Thank you Chandoo 😁😁

[@chandoo_]

What can I say.. I read your brain Brian 🤣

[@briandelaney6354]

@@chandoo_ 😄😄

[@sounduniverse9060]

You people are real heroes. Many institutions are charges thousands of rupees for this. And i don't think KZbin pays similarly, but you choose this option. you literally own me

[@alanlamb6047]

Hi Chandoo and comment readers I'd like to suggest a a minor change that yields a neater approach. PowerQuery EXPECTS you may want to transform each file So, start by working on the Transform Sample File, use the built-in feature to remove top rows, promote headers etc PowerQuery will then automatically update the Transform File function Now you you don't have to faff around filtering out the blank rows and extra heading rows in your main query (Also, if the specification changes, you only need to review and update the Transform Sample File) And, thank you for taking the time to keep posting great Excel videos.

[@mangeshbarve1751]

This is the best way...

[@chandoo_]

Great tip on Transform Sample Alan. Donut for you 🍩 While I am aware of this, I didn't show it for a reason. > Transform sample & transform functions are somewhat tricky to explain. So I wanted to cover them in an advanced future video Here is one example of the AWESOME power of Transform functions - chandoo.org/wp/combine-excel-files-using-power-query/

[@livefognik]

Thank you so much. Have to combine over half a year's worth of data in files for each month. All from a customer that sends in 1, 2 or sometimes even 3 files a day. Will take me hour to make the invoices tomorrow not days. Thank you so much!

[@saipranityellajosyula8008]

This video just saved my day from combining data from 53 excel folders data into 1 file. Thanks a lot _/\__/\_

[@jamiereife5581]

I do this all the time. Huge time saver and makes me look good 😊 I always keep the source file name until I know for sure that I do not need it.

[@shriidharkulkarni6648]

That is really awesome... You play with Excel as Sachin Tendulkar used to play with a cricket ball. Watching your videos is a pure pleasure. Thanks a lot.

[@TP014563]

Straight to point, and straight to point, then some more straight to point. This is what I always look for. Thanks.

[@chandoo_]

Thank you TP.

[@a.j.wilkes6352]

Great tip. I was blown away when I first saw this. I work in accounting, and getting people to stop having 40MB Excel workbooks because tab 1 is 800k lines of data instead storing data as period CSV files in a folder called data, is my calling. :)

[@chandoo_]

Wow.. 800k lines per tab... 😮 You are going to LOVE 💚 Power Query.

[@stevenperry7041]

Yours is the forth video I've tried. Three failed. You, however, said (approximately) "select only, do not open." And that made all the difference. (I was double clicking.) THANK YOU for paying attention to the little things... things that can totally frustrate.

[@shristeekashyap1779]

You have made it so easy to understand. Thanks a lot😊

[@RaviKumar-gz9my]

Thank you Chanoo I followed all the steps. It works provided after changing the name of the all the Sheets in a folder to same name [ Example: Data]]. I have the files but Sheet ina file different.

[@raj2016]

I'm following your daily dose from 2013 frequently happy to see u finally on you tube. 😀

[@89minimalist]

Hi Chandoo. I had a side project at work lying around for literally 1 year. Your super concise video was a Eureka moment for ne. Happy I watched your PowerBI & PowerQuery vids and stumbled across this huge gem! Thank you, Chandoo!

[@RaviKumar-gz9my]

The way you explain is excellent. You make tougher Task to Simple. Great. Appreciate.

[@MuhammadAli-vx6qd]

Thank u it was gr8 to see u on KZbin I was one of the oldest lover of your excel tricks specially graph presentation

[@viswanathan19]

Long wait is finally over. Thank you for your help. Request you to help with an idea to copy specific cells from multiple workbooks in a specific folder

[@chandoo_]

Thanks Viswa. Please refer to this advanced example for specific cell situation - chandoo.org/wp/combine-excel-files-using-power-query/

[@pulkithappy1897]

@chandoo, your tutorial was great. Especially, the sound effect at 3:55, it brought my attention back 😅

[@abdulazizahmed7035]

WOW i was searching every where to have this, you just make easy, Thanks Chandoo

[@asthajain7093]

you are awesome chandoo, i have find every thing for my project on your videos of power querry

[@honnurswamy6292]

Your teaching style it's very unique sir.... 🤩. Helpful tips

[@PeterLawrence193]

Great Video. I tried with my own data and it worked after my 2nd try. And I know I will be able to save 40 minutes at the financial month end

[@chandoo_]

That is AWESOME to hear Peter...

[@vijethamuppala5618]

Thanks a lot It helped me a lot today for consolidating the data .

[@ultra332211]

Thanks, Chandoo - I want to give 100 marks to you for this fantastic data analysis video 📹

[@chandoo_]

Thanks Manzar 😀

[@DarrenStarr]

Thank you Chandoo, this video was very useful and saved me a ton of time. You are brilliant my friend!

[@dynamictechnocrat]

This guy is really good it's a pity I don't really use excel would have bought his course .

[@masternecrushne]

First, I must say I am a big fan, and I have learned a lot from your KZbin channel 😊 I started to use power query, and I have some issue, and didn’t find solution. I have 2 files with lots of tabs that I want to combine to one file using “import files from folder”. The tabs I want to combine have the same name. The problem is that in some files I have more columns than other, and the order is different. For example, in some files column D is the project column, and in some files column D is the task column and column E is the project. When I combines the files, I get the project and the task in the same column. I there a way PQ can combine all columns by their names/headers and if there are additional columns just add them separately only for the files they appear in?

[@miguelgaitan1630]

Extremely helpful and informative video. Thank you Chandoo. Well Done!

[@omkarshedge6065]

Thanku it helps a lot!. While others was using VBA Code for same process, but you taught us simple way to do this.

[@robinluvsrap]

Thanks Chandoo! this is really really helpful!!!

[@Soulenergy31]

Great tip Sen Sei!

[@RaviKumar-gr5lo]

Great video. Only challenge I'm facing here is to keep the same format and some null data in between. Power query throwing 4000 errors when I'm loading data 😢 Need to recheck the data for formatting issues or null values.

[@satishojhaMrblank]

Thank you very much Chandoo.

[@sarasuselvaraj8643]

Hi Chandoo. You made consolidation very easy and Awesome. I have 1500000+ rows of data in three excel with same format. Could you please help me out with getting all these data in single sheet for analysis & comparison study.

[@jamanemon2110]

It was really helpful. Thank you Chandoo👏

[@Kiara0101]

I am in love with this tutorial¡

[@hirengson]

I was doing word column combinations in my excel. And rows are continuing loding till now. So can I save it.. for stop loading rows and catch up already loaded rows. ?????

[@sujitdhas174]

Thank you Chandoo Lots of love from seawoods darave which is located in Navi Mumbai ❤❤

[@SoNoFTheMoSt]

really well explained, thanks so much and its so amazing to just put a file in and it updates!

[@jibinreny6030]

Thankyou so much, this would save me 1 hour

[@chandoo_]

AWESOME 😎

[@GravelCycling2023]

Hi chandoo, can be schedule automatic refresh on some date & time in Power query, so that whenever a new file is added, our file gets updated

[@roes5654]

Commeting before watching ☆ Looks promising

[@CaribbeanQueen07]

Excellent teacher. Thank you !

[@hazemali382]

No doubt Power Query Amazing powerful Tool 🤩

[@maziz6237]

Appreciate…Thanks a lot for sharing this EXCEL treasure….Excel never stops revealing itself . Brilliant MS-Office designers and explorers-people like Chandoo. Luv this creative single platform , enough to make n assist various careers.

[@chandoo_]

Excel is AWESOME 😎

[@andreas_Salve]

Wow That's a nice knowledge. Thank you Chandoo sir 👍👍👍

[@anandtaori6569]

Superb...Saved Time

[@NoelFerguson]

Thanks for this. Well done.

[@Seftehandle]

This is the best vid on the power query topic

[@chandoo_]

Thanks Tina... 😀

[@8uhr744]

Hey there, nice Tutorial on how to use PowerQuery to combine and tranform multiple excl files. Im working on Automating this procedure with vba, and i've got a problem there. I want the end user to be able to select a folder with a folderpicker, in wich all the files are, he wants to get combined and transformed. Im using a variable "folderPath" therefore but when I place my variable instead of an absolute path I get error messages. i would be very grateful, if you could help me with that, and I also think it would be very powerful for many other situations. Thank you for your tutorials!

[@TimEllisWW]

Just like that 15 files into one. Thanks, great explanation.

[@chandoo_]

You're welcome!

[@michaelhogan1887]

Thank you for the video, do you know how to this on a Mac? I only have the load option.

[@kritikagupta965]

Hi, thank you for the great video. Question - I am saving the power BI excel in the same folder as all the files. After that when I add a new file and try to refresh it is throwing an expression error. Can you please let me know how to fix it ?

[@Falkland82]

If want to combine data from daily excel spreadsheet is this process valid? I have file with 245 spreadsheet all the same. Can i combine them for analisys?

[@awesome_uk]

Another great tip. Thank you Chandoo. This will actually help me combine my monthly close down data with less effort. This is really awesome! Never thought about it. More I say thank you less it will be for your effort in teaching Excel.

[@ibrahimmohammedanyarsyorda7447]

Which Excel version are you using please? Mine is 2013 and I don't see folder as part of the Get external data options. Please help.

[@bertholletlubanda422]

Good day , i have really appreciated the tutorial can i ask the question , which version of excel is that ?

[@chandoo_]

I am using Excel 365. But you can apply this in some of the older versions too.

[@shakeel778]

Thank you so much its very helpful for it was saved my time during my heavy load work 👍👍👍

[@chetrana8314]

Excellent Chandoo.

[@chandoo_]

Thank you Rana.

[@ruleem2785]

This was amazing Sir, but i have excel sheet in different folders and i need to extract those excel data into one excel so how to go with that

[@bittujha2890]

Hi Chandoo - Many thanks for posting this video. Many I request you to pos something to how to get rid of helper queries while combining multiple xlsx file? As there are several video that talks about combining csv file and show the steps get rid of helper queries but not with xlsx file

[@wayneedmondson1065]

Hi Chandoo. Another great tutorial! Love everything related to Power Query. Thanks also for providing the sample data to follow along.. very helpful! Thumbs up!!

[@chandoo_]

My pleasure Wayne.

[@rosywild4774]

You are just amazing man

[@balamira297]

Excellent video sir! Chala bagaundhi.

[@chandoo_]

Thanks Mira garu...

[@Gauravjin]

Xlookup can return one value or one row but how can you return all the unique rows.

[@saloriasaxon7323]

APPLAUSE APPLAUSE SIR! Yet another great video using combine and queries!!👏👏🎉🎆🎇

[@chandoo_]

🙏 Thank you Saloria.

[@baimeiguo6960]

Very nice, thanks! If you have more than one tab in one excel workbook, example: 4 file, each file has 3 tabs, how do you handle those case?

[@chandoo_]

You can combine the idea in this video with the one here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZDYmKaef5mqf9k All the best.

[@hariniharnath9932]

Superb Chandoo.Very Useful

[@chandoo_]

Thank you so much 🙂

[@kartheekdk2400]

Chandoo I have one doubt If I save n close this consolidated sheet after loading the data After 1 month again if I want to add November data if I place November data in the same folder will it get updated?

[@minhajshareef1180]

Sir, You are amazing and well explained information. Thank you

[@atulvishwakarma2986]

I need to combine sheets from files that exist in different folders, all named in same pattern. I hv done this by 1. first combining required sheets into one work book and then 2. combining sheets into one. How do I skip step 1? That is combining sheets from files that exist in different folders? Can I pick sheets in Workbooks from folders, just as you picked workbooks/files from folders?

[@sivannatarajan7]

Wow, you are a magician 🙏

[@chandoo_]

🎩🐇💥

[@LearnAccessByCrystal]

very interesting, thanks Chandoo ... all ready to put into Access ;)

[@chandoo_]

Enjoy!

[@ramses2]

Thank you Chandoo,

[@sujaynazare489]

This was amazing! Thank you!

[@chandoo_]

You're so welcome!

[@mohdsamimali]

How can we do like when a new row data is entered into individually worksheet then it also get updated into master worksheet too.

[@hanhnguyenhong3039]

woww, this way is so perfect and magination

[@rautoramarautorama9324]

Gr8 video. What exactly do u mean when u say all files should be of same format. Is this file format or the format of the data inside the file.? Thanks

[@ricklinty]

Both

[@anoopx5]

Thank you soo for your valuable tips..

[@premmish]

Thanks for the video Chandoo. I have been trying to do the same through Excel Power Query, I am getting strange and data is not processed. However, the same data is easily processes through Power BI. Please help me why I am getting such error in Excel 2016. Thanks

[@nafiurpial7209]

Awesome!

[@baimeiguo6960]

Thanks a lot, you are wonderful!!! Thank you Chandoo 😁😁

[@chandoo_]

So are you...

[@HusseinKorish]

Amazing Explanation ... thanks Chandoo

[@chandoo_]

You're most welcome

[@mjjvmjjv8277]

Hi Chandoo please explain Based on One unique code how to merge different format of excel workbooks to 1 on vertical basis i.e. next to last column not to row

[@vishwambharsholapur6109]

Hi Chandoo, Thanks for the video and help. I just have a problem. All my excel files are not cleaned (# of columns are different) but reading in the comments I guess it doesn't matter. When I hit 'Combine & Transform', only a single workbook data is loaded and all the other excel workbook data is shown as error. Can you resolve this?

[@_Manimal_]

Is this way better to save memory in excel ???

[@vaibhavthakur_1997]

Thanks chandoo ji🙏

[@rafiudeensarfaraz5898]

Is this possible if i want the file to be auto updated every time there are changes in the other excel files. for example based on the vide if there are changes in teh July, August excel files can I get it to be auto updated in the combined excel file?

[@sunnypandit8033]

Sir, You are Amazing 😍

[@alwulhan]

This is awesome 👍. I wish you have published this video few weeks ago. I was modifying files one by one and then append queries 😅

[@chandoo_]

Better late than never. 😀

[@sakibahmed1815]

Thank you for providing the zip file to practice .

[@chandoo_]

My pleasure.

[@stuartmccloud307]

Amazing! I didn't know this was possible, thanks Chandoo

[@rashidkhan8161]

Hello, I have 2 excel files Jan-22 & Feb-22, each file contain 5 sheets sales, product , region, date & category, when I get 1 file and transform it all 5 sheets showing 5 queries separately, how can I combine feb-22 file in it and make it dynamically in power query. Thanx

[@srisudharsan4169]

How did You learn so much like this brother. It's really interesting to learn Excel from your videos.❤️❤️❤️❤️🥳🥳

[@ahmedlotfy8347]

Can we able to combines different workbooks with different sheet names I mean first sheet in the workbook with second sheet in another workbook with not the same tab or sheet name is it possible And thanks in advance

[@chandoo_]

You can. I cover some of the advanced concepts like this in my Power Query mini-course. Feel free to get it from here - chandoo.org/wp/power-query-power-course/

[@surendrasharma2042]

Hi, Can we extract data from gmail by automation in excel?

[@shoaibrehman9988]

Hi Sir, Can we find Max value by using xlookup if multiple values available in range from a particular lookup item.

[@chandoo_]

SURPRISE!!! Like this comment if you use PQ to combine files....😀

[@rdnyman]

Great video! Thanks for posting!

[@Hopspowered]

Thank you Chandoo!