For more information, see Microsoft 365 with Office apps.Two weeks after releasing Office LTSC 2021, the new non-subscription version of its office suite for enterprises, Microsoft has released Office 2021 for consumers, students, and small businesses. We encourage you to make that choice so that all the Power Query features are available to you. The second choice is to subscribe to Microsoft 365. We can’t guarantee that a specific feature will be added to the next perpetual version. This choice might work, but truthfully, it may not. The first choice is to wait for the next upgrade to a perpetual version if you want a specific feature. Given this situation, you have two choices. 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. For example, fuzzy merge is supported in Microsoft 365, but not in 2019 perpetual. Professional Plus Standalone (also called perpetual) versions have a large subset of features, but not all of them. We recommend revising or removing any existing Power Query queries that use the Facebook connector as soon as possible to avoid unexpected results.īecause it’s a subscription-based version, Microsoft 365, at any one time, contains all the available Power Query features.

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. You will still be able to use the Facebook Power Query connector until then. Important: Retirement of Facebook data connector notice Import and refresh data from Facebook in Excel will stop working in April, 2020.

The following table shows basic and advanced features available by version. 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.

Office 2016 home & student