You WON'T BELIEVE These 10 HIDDEN Features in Excel Power Query 🤯

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Ready to explore hidden features in Excel's Power Query Editor? Whether you're a seasoned pro or a budding enthusiast, these tips and tricks will transform your Power Query experience!
🔍 What's Inside:
▪️ Power Query Editor Shortcut: Learn the Alt + F12 shortcut to instantly access Power Query Editor from any workbook.
▪️ Quick Access Toolbar Customization: Customize the Power Query Quick Access Toolbar to include your most-used features for quicker access.
▪️ M-Function Typing Tip: Avoid typing errors in M functions with a simple trick.
▪️ Zoom-In/Out Shortcut: Use Ctrl + Shift and the plus/minus keys to zoom in and out in the Power Query Editor.
▪️ Automatic Column Header Sorting: Learn how to sort column headers automatically for better data organization.
▪️ Import Entire File Content: Discover how to import all data from a file, including future sheets, using the folder icon.
▪️ Add Table Name to Quick Access Toolbar in Excel: Make table renaming easier by adding the table name box to Excel's QAT.
▪️ Copy & Paste Queries Between Files: Effortlessly copy queries from one Excel file to another.
▪️ Add Slicers to Tables: Enhance table interactivity by adding slicers for user-friendly filtering.
▪️ Adjust Refresh Settings in Excel: Set your Power Query results to refresh automatically at specific intervals.
In this video we'll unlock some hidden gems in your Excel Power Query Editor that you had this WHOLE time. They are simple but they will make your work life a lot easier. Some are also hidden tips when you work with Excel power query results - such as updating query refresh times, adding slicers to tables and also making it easier to change table names in Excel.
00:00 Hidden features your Excel Power Query you had this whole time
00:22 Power Query Editor Excel Shortcut
01:14 Quick Access Toolbar in Power Query
02:27 New Course: Automate with Power Query from Leila
04:25 Properly Enter M-Functions in Power Query Editor
05:32 Zoom-in and out Shortcut Keys in PQ Editor
06:05 Automatically Sort Column Headers
06:48 Import Entire File Content in Power Query
08:01 Add Table Name to QAT-Bar in Excel
09:10 Copy & Paste Power Queries to Different Excel Files
10:01 Add Slicers to Tables
11:09 Adjust Refresh Settings in Excel
11:45 Wrap Up
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[@LeilaGharani]

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Already started without seeing any preview. Because it’s the Leila who never frustrated me.

[@pl4195]

what are the differences between this course and the PQ begin to pro course?

[@user-do5qy6wx3g]

Hi Leila, I have seen your videos and really enjoy them. Would like to learn more as my work involves analysing multiple excel sheets and use of pivot tables. My data comes in sheets with different headers as well as columns that have combinations of number and characters within the same column. I would like to automate and analyse these columns in number format. Which course should would you recommend that I attend: (1) Power pivot & Dax( beginner to pro) or (2) Power Query ? Thanks.

[@higgs168]

@@pl4195 same question

[@robmedinaXXI]

The addition of table names to the Quick Access Toolbar is a brilliant time-saver, enhancing workflow efficiency. The tip about not typing the dot in M functions until necessary is also very practical. Moreover, the use of slicers for user-friendly table filtering is a great touch. These tips are truly valuable!

[@LeilaGharani]

Yay! Glad you like it

[@MissPickles1980]

The table names QAT is a game-changer for me!

[@enocharthur4322]

Quick access toolbar and slicer were my favorite. Awesome video Leila. Keep them coming!!!

[@Quijanos1]

Thank you! Like always a clear explanation with an easy to follow. Example. As per your question, I thoroughly enjoyed how you displayed the slicer and made it look super easy. Have a great day but an even better weekend.

[@alperkins66]

Love the "no-dots" with M code, love the zoom up/down using Control-Shift&+ - and lastly love adding table name to the Quick Access Toolbar!! Thanks LG!!

[@JJ_TheGreat]

Those tips are my 2 favorites of this video, too!

[@duds_sn]

The "never type the dot" is mind-blowing. I use PQ every day in excel and PBI and I'm chocked that it's that simple to avoid that behavior! Thanks Leila!

[@ccroche]

Thanks for those tips! I already knew a few of them, but I still love them all!

[@ForeverMods]

Best teacher ever!! Been subbed for years. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@mattsnow2376]

Hi Leila, thanks for this video. I took advantage pf the the video to sign for your course. I just started it and in chapter 1 (module 1) talked about addressing some challenges dealing with messy pdf's which was really helpful to me. Great courses. Clear and good examples. Thanks again.

[@pasztom84]

As always, great doze of useful knowledge. Every single tip is top. Thank you Leila

[@MuhammadBilal-official]

Thank you Leila for sharing these PQ tips... All these tips must be helpful for PQ users' productivity..

[@KhalidKhans55]

Wow! Leila, you are so genius! All these tools and tricks are to save time and work efficiently with less errors and great accuracy making you more proficient in front of your bosses.

[@DingDongGrahamBell]

Love all Ten (10) of them! Thank YOU as always for the tips!

[@m.raedallulu4166]

No. 3 and No. 6 are life savers! and No. 10 is interesting one. Thank you so much.

[@zengkenny5709]

🎉 Great and useful tips as always! Thank you so much. ❤

[@eddywijaya2204]

Thanks for the tips Leila!

[@DontCallMeScooterrr]

OMG. The zoom shortcut and the query copy & paste will make my life infinitely better. Thanks, Leila, you are the best!

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad it was helpful!

[@adnanabbasi9482]

Another helpful video, bundle of thanks!

[@user-ht1xy7ns8w]

Love auto refresh when open. Thank you for all your tips sharing. Very very useful.

[@shielamontealegre8144]

Thanks Leila, very helpful tips. I really like Tip#6 and #10 and QAT. I tried also copying steps from one query to another query by copying the specific mcode of that step via Advance Editor 😊

[@mkparker99]

Awesome! I love the ability to add to the QAT. I didn't know I could do that.

[@Metzanine]

These tips are GOLD!

[@michaeldavenport9268]

Awesome 3 & 9 are my favorites! love these

[@quentinbricard]

Thank you for this video!

[@asmrindia]

Very Nice Mam Query Shortcut, Slicer and Copy & Paste are very useful features. Thanks 😊

[@GuillermoPalchik]

OMG! #3 was SO helpful! Thank you Leila! You rock!😎

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jayeshaw5705]

Amazing tips. You are a true master!

[@earthlingt8231]

Hi Leila, I love watching your videos, and have learned a great deal from you over the time. I work in consulting. Each day, I work on several projects and each with several tasks. I have been thinking of creating an integrated excel tool that would function as a time tracker for everyday (a timesheet); a to do list for everyday and a dashboard illustrating with a nice chart the various tasks I would have worked on in a given period (for example, budgeting, scheduling, communication, strategy, etc.). This tool would allow me to filter the chart results for any given time - it could be specific, weeks, or months. This could be used to show a summary of performance / work completed in a given period of time (for example, to a supervisor as part of performance review). I was thinking the graph would utilize the data from the time tracker, which would be filled in daily and perhaps archived into a separate sheet so that I have clean tracker for everyday (same would go for the to do list). Is there a cleaner and faster way to do this? It would be nice if you could kindly make a video on this. :) Many thanks in advance.

[@shankardeb4933]

Really amazing features. Thanks a lot.

[@shirleymoreman6725]

I like #5 to sort column headers too. I wish we could have a feature that would allow us to select the sequence in this dropdown as well.

[@mjbah]

Hi Leila. As always your videos are unbelievably helpful and resourceful. Nearly all are favourites. But Tip #1, Tip #3 and Tip #6 are the most gems you have revealed on this video. But Tip #3 is the top dog. I can't count how many times I have to edit an M code (which I believe will also be applicable when creating custom columns where you use M) after pressing a tab. Thanks again.

[@freezendog7]

Hi Leila, #7 to keep an eye on things / quickly update table names. I'll start and use this quite a bit I think. Cheers. Pierre.

[@soloseven007]

Love you! Thank you!

[@pgcsec]

3, 7 and 10 - great to get to learn new ways to work with Power Query - thank you.

[@abdelazizallam]

Hi Leila I learn so much from you and I love you simple way in teaching .. I like in this video trick of refresh setting that can make me auto refresh every specific time ..thanks

[@mogarrett3045]

this is awesome...thank you

[@rchsuccesspartnersllc155]

Awesome- Thank you so much

[@SystemsDeptKIOCL]

Tip no 5 is my favorite your tutorials are brilliant and they have helped me a lot in understanding the brilliant tools in excel. Thank you

[@englishwithabdullahsafi5034]

Thank you so much Leila!

[@sergegagne874]

Good stuff, thank you! :)

[@engelberthvelasquez4222]

Brutal...... An amazing Video

[@fawdfire]

Great Lesson Video

[@biancawilkinson8757]

Table Names in the QAT literally just blew my mind. So good. Thank you!

[@mostafaattia2476]

thank you so much Leila

[@nazarenoman]

Hola. Son todos muy brillantes. Gracias.

[@piggybankaccountant]

I really love the Quick Access Toolbar addon, even "outside" of power query, you cant "ALT + 1 (or 2 or 3)" any keyboard shortcut. Its so great. Good video!

[@Faith4AllofLife]

Number 3!!! Yes, thank you!!!

[@mhmdseadawy8228]

Thanks for this great video.

[@chrism9037]

Thanks Leila! PQ is so amazing. I like #3 too

[@LeilaGharani]

It really is. Thanks Chris!

[@farooqaulakh5482]

Dear Ms. Your lessons are really great. I have learnt so much from these lessons. I will be connected with you for learn more.

[@jrioublanc]

Thanks, #6 is really cool.

[@Bourouwe]

Tip #8 is my favorite; thank you for all the tips!

[@leiterservices]

Thanks for the "Refresh when opening file" tip!!!

[@silverfunnel6819]

So much new information👍❤

[@RogerStocker]

Tip 8 I knew already and use it almost daily. for the rest I'm completely with you 3 & 6 are the most exiting ones.

[@younesbell7884]

🤠grazie mille. very helpful

[@meenatrainer]

Great video as always, all the tips are very informative 🙂

[@markandrow4010]

Thank you Leila , one of your best tutorial.

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you think so!

[@andreashermle2716]

Leila, you are fantastic ... always coming up with things I haven't heard of yet

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you so much!

[@Henrik.Vestergaard]

1 and 6, nice, thanks. Used the rest allready.

[@virendrahardiya2797]

Yes I loved these all skills you shown 🙏💓💓👍

[@rpopecpa]

Hi Leila, Great video. I love tips #2, 3, 7 & 8!!

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks so much!

[@vamp9750]

they are all new to me thanks

[@elphau]

the best video i think i have to come replaying it everyday

[@jeffreydheere4737]

I liked the Slicer function. I didn't even know about Power Query a couple days ago, now I'm assigned to learn all about it and how to use it in gathering our testing results.

[@thiagarajanneelamegam8640]

Always Awesome your teaching way. These 10 Shortcuts are very useful. Thanks Leila G

[@LeilaGharani]

You're very welcome!

[@user-rd6db1wy3b]

Love the tips. Have to practice it now. A bit fast though.

[@igreen4460]

Thank you. All awesome tips! 😊

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks for watching!

[@jayashribordoloi305]

Thank you for sharing useful tips. My favorite tip is 8. This will make my life easy

[@flourishwithMJ]

Thank you.

[@hemvaidya]

Thanks so much

[@jollyjuln1054]

Always perfect🎉

[@naorshikyar7648]

Incredible! I think that copy queries from workbooks to others is so helpful, thank u🙏

[@LeilaGharani]

You're so welcome!

[@derekcapitaine8854]

#9 Slicers makes for a user-friendly table. Great tip. Thx.

[@tafmarasha]

Copy/Paste Query just changed my life! Thank you! 🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@iankr]

Many thanks, Leila. I wish you could resize the table name field to make it longer!

[@chatureshpatel1159]

Excellent as usual ....

[@arthurlau-wx1nj]

Thank you so much

[@karhukivi]

Thank you Leila! I still struggle with graphing in Excel, especially the x-axis settings. I'll have to focus on that again!

[@regihamp0206]

Wow 3 to 7 OMG - thanks!

[@dimasagil90]

Thanks Leila. QAT is very practical. I will use it

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rohitkarnani0506]

Tip 8 is savior, thank you so much:)

[@CassidyHood]

These are going to save me so much time! Thank you!!

[@LeilaGharani]

You're so welcome!

[@imatzav]

#8: You can even paste into a text editor. What is pasted is the M code.

[@shirleymoreman6725]

I do this all the time!

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks for the tip

[@konstantinevseyenko9312]

I usually open two files in separate Excel instances and have to PQ editors. This allows me to copy queries between them more comfortable.

[@giuseppedonato5677]

😮 with #3 you changed my day 😂 thanks. Have a good day

[@roywilson9580]

Cool video, the only one that was new to me was the alt F12 to bring up the Power Query Editor, you can also use the right click key and 'G' to do the same thing.

[@VahabSahvi]

Excellent ❤

[@jazzista1967]

Nice tricks. I knew a handful of those . on your tip # 3 ( It could be 3.1) if you type the first letters of the function for example Excel.Workbook you simpy type in EW , the function will appear. Same with Table.PromoteHeader you type TPH and the function shows in the formula Bar I use this a lot and it is a time saver. Regards

[@prateekgupta7053]

Thank you mam😊😊. I liked every tip. ❤❤

[@RichardJones73]

There I was only the other day wishing for a quicker way to start a new query from the code editor so that I can paste my template code. Thanks Leila 👍👍👍

[@pradyumnmishra2370]

hi Leila thanks and great to see these ones, my favourate is number 3

[@andrzejb4370]

No 8❤. Kind of easy but I haven't thought about it and certainly will be useful

[@anjelarieder9924]

to be honest, I will use all of your tips! just made me a summary of all! thank you!

[@LeilaGharani]

Perfect!

[@bijaytanty8434]

Thanks

[@kellyandrews9462]

Thanks!

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks!

[@jerrydellasala7643]

Leila, great video as always! I'm on the Insider Beta version of 365. A month or two ago an update changed how the name of the table is made adding "Table_" to the beginning of the table name I already gave the Query with the intention of using it as the Table Name. Your tip about adding it to the QAT is great to help resolve that problem! I've sent feedback asking to either stop that behavior or add it as an option and maybe even allow the prefix to be able to be customized. I will give tables a SHORT prefix sometimes like when using table data in a Query to be able to easily distinguish Tables from Query Tables by prefixing Query tables with "tbl", but that's vastly different than imposing "Table_" on EVERY Query Table! Have you seen this "feature" yet? Do you like it? Thanks as always for a great video!

[@shirleymoreman6725]

This "feature" now seems to be on general release and I agree - it's really annoying! Like you, if I want a prefix I usually add tbl rather than Table_ so I end up renaming every time. Leila's tip to add the table rename to the QAT is a great idea... but I really wish that this could be switched off!

[@chh8860]

I still aspire to someday soar with eagles like Leila, ... but alas, today I am only a parakeet with great ambitions ... 😥 Favorite tips #9 & #10. Thank you ... thank you ... thank you ... 😍😍😍 PS Hot coffee with a slice of pound cake and a Leila video ... a wonderful way to start my Thursday.

[@LeilaGharani]

Someone told me that ambition is the path to success. So, you're on the right track

[@RichardJones73]

typing the dot caused me trigger issues so thank you Leila for curing me!

[@filip2585]

this copy querys is awesome :D I always do copy into notepad and than copy to new blank query

[@user-ue4oe9dy3e]

really like your 3th tips. Im still learning M so having an example for any function is awesome

[@LeilaGharani]

Great to hear!