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Power Query variables are a great way to store data that can be used multiple times and can be easily updated in one place. There are a few ways you can create variables. 1. From the worksheet, which means you don’t even need to open the query editor to update the variable. This is great …
When you import data to Power Query, it's not unusual to end up with a table containing blank rows and columns, like this There are a few ways to get rid of these 'blank' rows and columns, some better than others. Watch the Video Download Example Excel Workbook Enter your email address below to download …
You may have data that is contained in lists or records, or even lists inside records, or records inside lists. I've seen nested data like this come from API's or Sharepoint amongst other sources. In such cases you may want to extract only certain bits of data from the list(s) or record(s) and this blog …
I'm going to look at situations that appear to be fairly common: loading data into Power Query where the source data has columns with different names. For example, in the following file received in August 2021, I have data that relates to various items over a 12 month period. What the data is showing is …
Below is a list of time saving keyboard shortcuts that you can use in Power Query, in both Excel and Power BI. Watch the video to see me demonstrate how to use them, and download a PDF containing all shortcuts. Watch the Video Download Power Query Shortcuts PDF Enter your email address below to download …
This is my source data and I want to remove the percentages Specifically I want to remove all occurrences of (00%) so my data ends up like this There's no native function in Power Query to do this so I'll have to write my own code. Watch the Video Download Sample Excel Workbook Enter …
If you've only ever used the user interface (Ribbon and menus) to create your transformations then you're missing out on some neat things you can do by using the Power Query Advanced Editor. In this post I'd like to show you what's in the Advanced Editor, how you can write code in it and hopefully …
Sometimes you have a table of data that describes a 1 to many relationship. The number of values on the Many side is unknown and can vary. So writing Power Query code to pivot this can be tricky. Let's look at an example. The first column is a list of the office locations of my …
In Excel we can use IFERROR to if our calculation results in an error, and we can then tell Excel to produce a different result, instead of the error. Power Query doesn't have IFERROR but it does have a way of checking for errors and replacing that error with a default answer, it's called try …
Comparing table columns in Excel is a common task. You may need to identify items that are the same, different, or missing from these columns. In Power Query, table columns are lists and you can compare these lists using table merges. But merging can only be done on two tables at a time. If you …
