Tutorial query in excel. Using the microsoft query tool in our open excel document we will click on data in the ribbon tab and select from other sources. In this tutorial youll use excels power query experience to create a query that imports data from a web page. You can use microsoft query in excel to retrieve data from an excel workbook as well as external data sources using sql select statements. Hence we can use basic formulas to carry out lots of tasks on excel.
Steps for querying a table in excel. Without much ado lets start. If we are using excel 2016 we will click on get external data directly from the data tab figure 2 microsoft query wizard.