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Philip Treacy
Philip Treacy
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RE: Getting Error while trying to access the data from web

Hi Krishna, You're running this from my query to NASA from this blog post? I don't know why you'd get that error. The Excel file still works...

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RE: Change date format to "mmm-yy"

Hi Danielle, Correct. Power Query shows you the data as it actually is, without leading zeroes. In Excel or DAX you can apply formatting to affect...

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RE: Change date format to "mmm-yy"

Hi Danielle, That's a formatting/display problem that you would do either directly in excel or in DAX, not in Power Query. Your attached Excel f...

5 years ago
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RE: API Web Scraping

You're welcome, glad to help. Phil

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RE: Data could not be retrieved from the database

Hi Gary, It could also be that you're request is taking too long to complete. Web servers have a timeout on the length a request has to execute. ...

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RE: API Web Scraping

Hi Peter, If you haven't already, please read these posts on API's and Power Query Getting Started with API's in Power Query • My Online Trainin...

5 years ago
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RE: VAT rate grouping and transaction dates contained in the same column

Hi Casey, Can you please supply a file we can work on so we don't have to try reproducing the data. Regards Phil

5 years ago
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RE: Power Query - Close & Load to...

Hi Justin, No images attached I'm afraid. You need to click Start Upload to load the images. Read This First | Forum Rules and Guides | Excel...

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RE: If total columns > x then

Hi John, Yes, you don't even need to check if there are more than 4 columns, just select the columns you want and then right click on a selected co...

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RE: Table.Distinct - what does it remove?

Hi Craig, Looking at the official documentation it looks like first keeps the first row (although this isn't explicitly said), removing duplicates ...

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RE: Macro remove leading and trailing spaces in cells

Hi David, If you mean can you convert columns to different data types in PQ, then yes, very easily. Likewise, joining columns together is simp...

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RE: Macro remove leading and trailing spaces in cells

Hi David, Use Power Query. The data looks like it's already been imported or copy/pasted - all numbers are text? If you use PQ to bring this data...

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RE: searching for text string - faster way

Hi, Have you read and tried the code from these posts You haven't said how you want the results to look so I've produced a table with the st...

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