Reshaping Data in Power Query Series: Date Handling (Month Name & Year)

In this video, we begin our Reshaping Data in Power Query series by focusing on date handling, specifically how to extract Month Name and Year from a date field.

You’ll learn two different methods to extract Month Name and Year in Power Query:

✅A simple, step-by-step approach that’s easy for beginners to follow
✅A shorter, more technical method using Power Query transformations

Understanding how to properly handle dates is a key foundation for pivoting and unpivoting data, especially when working with time-based datasets like monthly sales, revenue reports, or performance tracking.

If you work as a data analyst or deal with Excel datasets regularly, this skill will help you clean, structure, and prepare your data more efficiently before analysis.

What you’ll learn in this video:
✔️How Power Query treats date fields
✔️How to extract Month Name from a date
✔️How to extract Year from a date

This tutorial sets the base for the next videos in the series, where we’ll move into pivoting and unpivoting datasets in Power Query.

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