Start Excel and open a new or existing spreadsheet. Go to the "Data" tab and click on "From Other Sources" in the Get External Data group. Choose "From Microsoft Query" in the drop-down list.

Highlighting or even deleting duplicate records in Excel is simple but listing them isn't as easy. Fortunately, you can use Power Query to easily display a list of duplicate values or records.

Figure A We’ll use Power Query to combine the address elements into a single cell. Getting the data into Power Query requires following just a few steps. 1. Click anywhere inside the Excel Table. 2.

How to create an Excel table 1. First, enter the field names in the columns across the top, and then enter some records/data in the rows under each column.