Enable Fast Data Load: According to Microsoft, "your query will take less time to loadhowever, Excel may be unresponsive for long periods of time during the upload." ...

But what if there was a faster, smarter way to handle all of this, using Power Query. A innovative tool built right into Excel that can transform how you approach data cleaning and analysis.

Use Excel’s “Get Data from Folder” feature to import and combine multiple trial balance files into a single query. Clean and transform data using Power Query to prepare it for analysis.