Power Query M formula language

Concept

Power Query M is the functional, case-sensitive formula language used to express data mashups in Power Query across Power BI, Excel and other Microsoft services.

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Documentation	learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m

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Power Query Folding and Execution Order in Power BI

2025-11-05 · Video on YouTube

Power BI is lying to you. Those neat, orderly “Applied Steps” you trust are a façade. Power Query is secretly rearranging, deferring, collapsing and sometimes ignoring the way you wrote your transform steps — which is why your filters don’t filter, your…

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Power Query in Excel: Import, Clean, Merge and Refresh Data
2026-11-12 · Mirko Peters
Power query in Excel imports and cleans data without formulas. Learn where to find it, From Table/Range, Applied Steps, merge vs append, loading and refresh.
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Maintained by Mirko Peters (Microsoft MVP) · Last updated: 2026-11-12