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Let’s say you have a set of Excel files and you want to feed that information into one Excel file, to allow you to do summaries or produce Charts. How would you go about it? Here is one way:

Install Power Query from:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39379&CorrelationId=85f847dd-369e-4417-b604-6a2f3c673084

Use this function (copied from link below) to import multiple XLSX to one sheet.

 //Define function parameters  
 (#"Directory containing Excel files to combine" as text,   
 optional #"Name of each Excel object to combine" as text,   
 optional #"Use first rows as headers" as logical) =>  
 let  
   //If the optional Excel object name parameter is not set, then default to Sheet1  
   ExcelName = if #"Name of each Excel object to combine" = null   
         then "Sheet1"   
         else #"Name of each Excel object to combine",  
   //If the optional Use first rows as headers parameter is not set, then default to true  
   UseFirstRowsAsHeaders = if #"Use first rows as headers"= null   
               then true   
               else #"Use first rows as headers",  
   //Get a list of all the files in the folder specified  
   Source = Folder.Files(#"Directory containing Excel files to combine"),  
   //Filter these to only get Excel files  
   OnlyGetExcelFiles = Table.SelectRows(Source,   
                each ([Extension] = ".xlsx")   
                or ([Extension] = ".xls")),  
   //Find the full path of each file  
   FullPath = Table.CombineColumns(  
           OnlyGetExcelFiles ,  
           {"Folder Path", "Name"},  
           Combiner.CombineTextByDelimiter("", QuoteStyle.None),"Merged"),  
   //Get a list containing each file path  
   ExcelFiles = Table.Column(FullPath, "Merged"),  
   //Define a function to get the data from the specified name in each Excel workbook  
   GetExcelContents = (FileName as text) =>  
    let  
    //Connect to the workbook  
    Source = Excel.Workbook(File.Contents(FileName), UseFirstRowsAsHeaders),  
    //Get a table of data from the name specified  
    //If the name doesn't exist catch the error and return null  
    ExcelData = try Source{[Item=ExcelName]}[Data]   
               otherwise try Source{[Name=ExcelName]}[Data]   
               otherwise null  
    in  
    ExcelData,  
   //Call the above function for each Excel file  
   ReadAllWorkbooks = List.Transform(ExcelFiles, each GetExcelContents(_)),  
   //Remove any null values resulting from errors  
   IgnoreNulls = List.RemoveNulls(ReadAllWorkbooks),  
   //Combine the data from each workbook into a single table  
   CombineData = Table.Combine(IgnoreNulls)  
 in  
   CombineData  

Here are some of the steps to get the function into Excel:

Read more at:
Combining Data From Multiple Excel Workbooks With Power Query–The Easy Way! | Chris Webb’s BI Blog