Power Query
complex Excel data manipulation tasks, connecting and transforming data from multiple sources
It's a powerful system for data transformation, but requires learning its specific interface rather than accepting plain English commands.
users who want to avoid learning a new system and prefer direct AI natural language commands
Related Tools
FIRST-HAND READS
What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.
“The real shit shit comes when you get good with power query, database connectors and VBA.”
POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-12-09
“you can use Power Query/BI to essentially run a relational database and metrics/dashboards on it inside an Excel spreadsheet plus a web page”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-12-05
“Doing something as "simple" as a LEFT JOIN of data requires having two separate documents (or one, but saved on your system), open them in the Power Query editor (if it's the same document you do it twice, once per table) which creates two "queries", and then you can either use one to join against the other, or create a third one "joining" them. In the end, you get three new sheets on your docs: the original tables and the merged one.”
NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-08-12
“Power Query deserves a shout out. I use it to make tables that pull their data from other tables with custom transformation logic.”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-05-20
“Power Query works well, plus the fact it can do query folding”
POSITIVE · performance · Reddit · 2025-05-19
“Power Query is really nice. The fact that the UI generates code that you can tweak afterwards is a great learning tool.”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2024-11-15
Have You Used This Tool?
Sign in to share your experience with this tool.
Sign in