Tutorial excel query. Using the microsoft query tool in our open excel document we will click on data in the ribbon tab and select from other sources. As part of this process youll navigate across tables available on a web page and apply data transformation steps to display just the data you want to see. If we are using excel 2016 we will click on get external data directly from the data tab figure 2 microsoft query wizard. With query editor you can navigate define and perform data transform operations over a data source.
Excel as well as access use windows aceoledb or jetoledb providers to run queries. A microsoft query aka ms query aka excel query is in fact an sql select statement.