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Rita Kiss
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February 9, 2017 - 7:00 pm
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Can somebody help me explaining what's the difference between null and 0 values in Power Query? I want to use the data later on in PowerPivot calculations and I'm not sure if I should leave everything as is, convert null to 0 or the other way around.

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Hi Rita,

In Power Query null is an empty cell, whereas a zero is a number. You can load your data as is into Power Pivot and the cells containing null will just appear empty.

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Mynda

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