![]() ![]() To conclude this tutorial – export the filtered table to the blank sheet that we had opened. It can have a Query View and we can also save this query. A user can go with and add logic function like AND and OR and so on. You can see that table has been filtered for all the criteria that were set. Now you can set the filter criteria for the data.Įxample criteria 01: let’s filter the data for cars having only 8 cylinders, year = 70 and MPG greater then or equal to 16 will give you following table (you can either press enter or press Query Now Button: Keep pressing next till get to the finish window and from here select option to “view data or edit query in MS Query”. Press next and it will take you to the query window. ![]() Once pressed, the dialogue box will show the variable present in the table and you can select from it your required (desired) variables - we have selected everything except weight of the car. ![]() Press OK button on the error message and this will take you for another dialogue box “Query Table Select Column”, select Options button and check mark system tables for the next dialogue box. Pressing OK might throw an error “This data source contains no visible table”. (There are few more tabs in this dialogue box but they are out of scope of this article we will just stick to setting up MS Query with an Excel database.) Double clicking “Excel” will lead you to a dialogue box where you have to select the file, in our case cars.csv - select and press OK. It will give user multiple options like dBASE file, Excel or MS Access database.įor these three we will obviously select the second one – Excel. When you select this option it will open yet another dialogue box, asking for the source file. With blank sheet active, go to tab Data>From Other Sources>From MS Query. Setting up data source in new excel workbook: Now we open a blank excel sheet and try to use MS Query to bring in data from the closed CSV file. This will ensure that the file has “only” data and no formatting with it at all. Here is a snap shot of it.įor query to work, our sheet should be in the form of a table – as is shown in the above picture. so it will be interesting to so how query works with this small database. ![]() This database lists cars of various brands and their specs: Cylinders, Engine Displacement, Horse power etc. We will be using a data that is easily downloadable and will be of interest to most of us – cars.xlsx. In today’s post we will explore what the options available when we want to inquire something from a database, how query works and few examples to learn the basics. It inquiries from our database and return some results or information. “Query” in MS Excel has same meaning as it has in our daily lives. ![]()
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