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Combining sheets in Excel using PowerQuery in less than 50 clicks (no VBA or coding required)

A recent discussion on R/Excel  " What is the most efficient way to insert a similar chart in several pre-existing worksheets of a workbook while making sure that the data source of the chart refers to the worksheet where it has been inserted?"  initiated a conversation about the different methods of displaying data from multiple sheets which i ncluded a question around working with data on multiple sheets that needed to be summarised on a chart that was identical on each sheet. As with most things with Excel, there are a number of methods that would achieve this result, I believe the quickest and most efficient is to use Power Query to combine the data and then display the output as a pivot table/chart with a slicer to allow the user to select each source as required. I realise this isn't providing a separate sheet for each data source however, assuming there are no restrictions on the visibility of the data, this is a 1-page solution that contains all the required data ...