PowerPivot Transformation Tab missing - excel

I want to unpiovt some data and wanted to use PowerPivot. The last time I used it I had a tab called "Transformation" which is not there anymore. I looked around and could not find a "modify menue" Option in PowerPivot.
Does some one has a hint where I have the pimp the settings?
Thx
Alex

Hmm...strange.
The way I opened Power Pivot over the Power Pivot Tab in Excel I do not get the Transformation tab. I've just found by accident in the contex menue of the table the option "Data from table...". When clicking on that I get a new window that looks different but is called PowerQuery Editor. And in this window I have the transformation tab...

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