Microsoft announced a cloud based business intelligence platform called Power BI – as a part of that, the project (in public preview) that was previously called “Data Explorer” will be released as “Power Query”. It’s a great tool that have used to find, clean and shape data in Excel 2010, very useful! So one of the first things I checked was whether Excel 2010 can run Power Query or not. Turns out, it does! It works with Excel 2010 professional plus (Please read the system requirements on the official download page for details)

And of course, I downloaded and installed it on my Excel 2010 professional plus.If you’ve not installed Office 2010 SP1 or higher, do that too.

Please note that this change affects some of the blog posts that I’ve published on this blog, Here’s the list:

1) Exploring, filtering and shaping web-based public data using Data Explorer Excel add-in
2) Web Scraping Tables using Excel add-in Data Explorer preview
3) Unpivoting data using the data explorer preview for Excel 2010/2013
4) Merging/Joining datasets in Excel using Data Explorer add-in
5) Remove Duplicates in Excel Tables using Data Explorer Add-in

That’s about it for this post. Update your “Data Explorer” tab to “Power Query” if you haven’t already! It’s a handy tool and I am glad to see that Data Explorer Power Query runs on Excel 2010 Pro Plus!