Power Query data sources in Excel versions

Applies To
Excel for Microsoft 365 Excel for Microsoft 365 for Mac Excel 2024 Excel 2021 Excel 2019 Excel 2016

The following information details which versions of Excel include the Power Query (known as Get & Transform in Excel) experience.

Excel 2016 or later for Windows and Microsoft 365

The Power Query experience is available in all Excel 2016 or later Windows stand alone versions and Microsoft 365 subscription plans on the Data tab in the Get & Transform group. The following table shows basic and advanced features available by version.

Connector Name Office 2016
Home & Student
Home & Business Standard
Professional
Office 2016
Professional Plus
Standalone
Office 2019
Home & Student
Home & Business Standard
Professional
Office 2019
Professional Plus
Standalone
Microsoft 365
Home
Personal
Business
Business Premium
Microsoft 365
Apps for Enterprise
Excel workbook Included Included Included Included Included Included
Text & CSV Included Included Included Included Included Included
XML Included Included Included Included Included Included
JSON Included Included Included Included
PDF (Requires
.Net Framework 4.5+)
Included Included
Local folder Included Included Included Included Included Included
SharePoint Folder Included Included
SQL Server Included Included Included Included Included Included
Microsoft Access Included Included Included Included Included Included
Analysis Services Included Included Included Included Included Included
SQL Server Analysis Services (Import) Included Included Included
Oracle Included Included Included
IBM Db2 Included Included Included
MySQL Included Included Included
PostgreSQL Included Included Included
Sybase Included Included Included
Teradata Included Included Included
SAP HANA Included Included
Azure SQL Database Included Included Included
Azure SQL Data Warehouse Included Included
Azure HDInsight (HDFS) Included Included Included
Azure Blob Storage Included Included Included
Azure Table Storage Included Included Included
Azure Data Lake Storage Included Included
Azure Data Explorer Included
SharePoint Online List Included Included
Microsoft Exchange Online Included Included
Dynamics 365 (online) Included Included Included
Facebook Included Included Included Included Included Included
Important: Retirement of Facebook data connector notice Import and refresh data from Facebook in Excel will stop working in April, 2020. You will still be able to use the Facebook Power Query connector until then. But starting in April, 2020, you will be unable to connect to Facebook and you will receive an error message if you try using the Facebook connector. We recommend revising or removing any existing Power Query queries that use the Facebook connector as soon as possible to avoid unexpected results.
Salesforce Objects Included Included Included
Salesforce Reports Included Included Included
Table/Range Included Included Included Included Included Included
Web Included Included Included Included Included Included
Microsoft Query Included Included Included Included Included Included
SharePoint List Included Included Included
OData Feed Included Included Included Included Included Included
Hadoop File (HDFS) Included Included Included
Active Directory Included Included Included
Microsoft Exchange Included Included Included
ODBC Included Included Included Included Included Included
OLEDB Included Included Included Included Included Included
Blank Query Included Included Included Included Included Included

Choosing between Microsoft 365 and Professional Plus Standalone

Because it's a subscription-based version, Microsoft 365, at any one time, contains all the available Power Query features. You can think of it as the master set. Professional Plus Standalone (also called perpetual) versions have a large subset of features, but not all of them. For example, fuzzy merge is supported in Microsoft 365, but not in 2019 perpetual. More features were added to 2019 perpetual than were available in 2016 perpetual, and even more will be added to the next perpetual version called 2021. Given this situation, you have two choices. The first choice is to wait for the next upgrade to a perpetual version if you want a specific feature. This choice might work, but truthfully, it may not. We can't guarantee that a specific feature will be added to the next perpetual version. The second choice is to subscribe to Microsoft 365. We encourage you to make that choice so that all the Power Query features are available to you. For more information, see Microsoft 365 with Office apps.

Excel for the Web

The following table summarizes what data sources are supported and what you can do with them.

Note

  • Refresh for queries loaded to the Data Model is not yet supported.
  • Refresh for queries in workbooks saved in a third-party cloud location is not yet supported.
  • Refresh for data sources that require an on-premise data gateway is not supported.
Data source Authentication
Table/Range Anonymous
OData Feed Anonymous
SharePoint* files (Excel workbooks, TXT, CSV, XML, JSON, PDF) Organizational
SharePoint* folders Organizational
SharePoint Online List Organizational
SharePoint List Organizational
SQL Server Database User/Password
OData Feed User/Password
Web API User/Password
IBM Db2 Database User/Password
PostgreSQL Database User/Password
AzureSQL Database User/Password
Azure Synapse Analytics Organizational
Azure HDInsight (HDFS) Organizational
Azure Blob Organizational
Azure Table Organizational
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 1 Organizational
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2 Organizational
Azure Data Explorer Organizational
Dataflows Organizational
Dataverse Organizational
Microsoft Exchange Online Organizational
Dynamics 365 (Online) Organizational
Salesforce Objects User/Password
Salesforce Reports User/Password

*SharePoint/OneDrive for work or school

Note

Refresh is limited to 1000 connections per user. The refresh happens behind the scenes so you can keep editing the workbook while refreshing.

Excel for Microsoft 365 for Mac

If you're a Microsoft 365 subscriber, the Power Query experience is available in Excel for the Mac from the Get Data command on the Data tab. The following table summarizes what data sources are supported and what you can do with them. For more information, see Import data in Excel for Mac (Power Query).

Data source Refresh Import
Text & CSV Included Included
Excel workbook Included Included
XML Included Included
JSON Included Included
SharePoint Folder Included
SQL Server Included
Table/Range Included
Local Folder Included
SharePoint List Included Included
OData Feed Included Included
Blank Query Included Included
Blank Table Included Included

Excel for Android and iOS

Power Query is not supported.

See Also

Power Query for Excel Help

Import data from external data sources