What is Power Query Editor?

Power Query Editor is a business intelligence tool by Microsoft that helps in data transformation and preparation. It provides a simple and user-friendly graphical interface to interact with the users for retrieving data from various sources. Alongside, it offers a Power Query Editor designed for applying necessary transformations to the data.

It is an important part of Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft applications; it is, in fact, an integral part of these applications. It is specially designed to facilitate users by allowing them to establish a connection with their data sources and further extract, transform, and load data into these applications for analysis and reporting purposes.