Import data from external data sources (Power Query)

Use Excel's Get & Transform (Power Query) experience to import data into Excel from a wide variety of data sources. You can then use the Query Editor to edit query steps to shape or transform data. For more information, see Shape data.

Standard Connectors

• Connect to a Text or CSV file

• Connect to a Web page

• Connect to an Excel Table/Range

Import Data from a File

• Connect to an Excel workbook

• Connect to a Text or CSV file

• Connect to an XML file

• Connect to a JSON file

• Connect to a Folder

• Connect to a Sharepoint folder

Import Data from a Database

• Connect to a SQL Server database

• Connect to an Access database

• Connect to Analysis Services

• Connect to SQL Server Analysis Services Database (Import)

• Connect to an Oracle database

• Connect to an IBM DB2 database

• Connect to a MySQL database

• Connect to a PostgreSQL database

• Connect to a Sybase IQ database

• Connect to a Teradata database

• Connect to an SAP HANA database

Import Data from Microsoft Azure

• Connect to an Azure SQL database

• Connect to an Azure SQL Data Warehouse

• Connect to Azure HDInsight (HDFS)

• Connect to Azure Blob Storage

• Connect to Azure Table Storage

• Connect to an Azure Data Lake Store

Import Data from Online Services

• Connect to a Sharepoint Online List

• Connect to Microsoft Exchange Online

• Connect to Microsoft Dynamics 365 (online)

• Connect to Facebook

• Connect to Salesforce Objects

• Connect to Salesforce Reports

Import Data from Other Sources

• Connect to an Excel Table or Range

• Connect to a Web page

• Connect with Microsoft Query

• Connect to a Sharepoint Online List

• Connect to an OData feed

• Connect to a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)

• Connect to Active Directory

• Connect to a Microsoft Exchange Server

• Connect to an ODBC source

• Connect to an OLEDB source

• Create a Blank Query

Legacy Wizards

Legacy wizards have been maintained for familiarity and compatibility with earlier Excel versions. Note that the experience is not as robust as the equivalent Get & Transform experience with Power Query. See: Unified Get & Transform.

• Connect to an Access database (Legacy)

• Connect to a Web page (Legacy)

• Connect to a Text file (Legacy)

• Connect to a SQL Server database (Legacy)

Prerequisites

• For information about prerequisites, see Data source prerequisites.

• Before you can combine data sources into specific data that match your data analysis requirements, you connect to a data source based on your data source Privacy Levels settings.

Query Editor

Note: The Query Editor only appears when you load, edit, or create a new query using Power Query. The following video shows the Query Editor window appearing after editing a query from an Excel workbook. To view the Query Editor without loading or editing an existing workbook query, from the Get External Data section in the Power Query ribbon tab, select From Other Sources > Blank Query. The following video shows one way to display the Query Editor.

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See Also

Power Query is known as Get & Transform in Excel 2016

Microsoft Power Query for Excel Help

Import data from database using native database query

Data Management Experience in Power BI for Office 365 Help