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Remove Duplicates Using Power Query or Get & Transform

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Power Query or Get & Transform (In Excel 2016) lets you perform a series of steps to transform your Excel data.
 One of the steps it allows you to take is to Remove Duplicates easily.

Power Query or Get & Transform (In Excel 2016) lets you perform a series of steps to transform your Excel data.  One of the steps it allows you to take is to Remove Duplicates easily.

Excel Power Query remove duplicates feature eliminates any human error whenever you try to delete your duplicate data manually!

Let’s suppose you have this set of data. You can see that the marked ones are duplicate values, let us get rid of them!

Remove Duplicates Using Power Query or Get & Transform

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Follow the step-by-step tutorial on Excel Power Query Remove Duplicates and download this Excel workbook to practice along:

Download excel workbookRemove-Duplicates.xlsx

STEP 1: Select your data and turn it into an Excel Table by pressing the shortcut Ctrl + T or by going to Insert > Table.

Remove Duplicates Using Power Query or Get & Transform

 

STEP 2: Go to Data > Get & Transform > From Table (Excel 2016) or Power Query > Excel Data > From Table (Excel 2013 & 2010)

Excel 2016:

 Fill Down Values Using Power Query

Excel 2013 & 2010:

from table

 

STEP 3: This will open up the Power Query Editor.

Go to Home > Remove Rows > Remove Duplicates

Remove Duplicates Using Power Query or Get & Transform

 

STEP 4: Click Close & Load from the Home tab and this will open up a brand new worksheet in your Excel workbook with the cleaned table.

Fill Down Values Using Power Query

You now have your new table with the remove duplicates power query!

Remove Duplicates Using Power Query or Get & Transform

This completes our tutorial on How to Remove Duplicates in Power Query!

 

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Bryan

Bryan Hong is an IT Software Developer for more than 10 years and has the following certifications: Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD): Web Developer, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Windows Applications, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA).

He is also an Amazon #1 bestselling author of 4 Microsoft Excel books and a teacher of Microsoft Excel & Office at the MyExecelOnline Academy Online Course.

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