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Column order within Power Query is not reflected in Model or Datasheet views (bug?)
> I guess this workaround have no effect because you miss the step 4 ?
Well yes, because that will break any visuals that use this table any lost all measures or calculated columns associated with this table.
It's fairly useless to be able to reorder columns in PQ if it isn't reflected anywhere else in the model. It's mind boggling that this standard behavior isn't available in Power BI.
Hi TeeGee ,
The previous workaround has some problem, you can try the following.
1. Open Power Query Editor
2. Edit the column order
3. change the table name to such as table1-copy (DO NOT APPLY CHANGE)
4. create a blank query, name as the previous table name (and make query = table1-copy)
5. apply the changes
6. check the visual about this table, if anything loss, do not save the file
7. each time change the column order, do the 1-6 again. keep the origin table and delete the blank query
Best regards,
Community Support Team _ DongLi
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