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Cubist
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Advocate II

Anyway to import rows instead of columns?

If an end user provides many spreadsheets with data oriented horizontally instead of vertically (see image) is there any way to import this into Power BI?

 

Power BI seems to normally expect that a single column represents a single list of data values.  In this case rows represent the lists of values.

 

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vanessafvg
Super User
Super User

import it in as is and then use the transformations in Power Query to transpose it / filter out blanks / pivot it - etc

 

 

http://radacad.com/pivot-and-unpivot-with-power-bi





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Indeed. In this case, unpivot would be the better option.

Specializing in Power Query Formula Language (M)

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vanessafvg
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Super User

import it in as is and then use the transformations in Power Query to transpose it / filter out blanks / pivot it - etc

 

 

http://radacad.com/pivot-and-unpivot-with-power-bi





If I took the time to answer your question and I came up with a solution, please mark my post as a solution and /or give kudos freely for the effort 🙂 Thank you!

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Indeed. In this case, unpivot would be the better option.

Specializing in Power Query Formula Language (M)

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