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ashley95e
Helper I
Helper I

Error: Unable to get property type of undefined or null references

Can anyone tell me why I keep getting this Obscure message- its the same data that worked 2 days ago without issue. I combed through the data- once again this is Excel data mainly dates- Ive been careful to stick to a generic Excel spreadsheet mode. 

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Shahid12523
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Community Champion

Open Power Query Editor → look for steps with errors (yellow triangle).

Check applied steps like Changed Type or Promoted Headers → update them to match the current data.

Ensure your Excel data is in a proper Table with consistent headers.

👉 Essentially, the query is expecting a column that no longer exists or has a null header.

Shahed Shaikh
ashley95e
Helper I
Helper I

I believe Ive found the cause of the error issue

It appears Excel blank cells in a column with numbers typed  "General" for the column produce these errors  


"Unable to get property type of undefined or null references"

At least thats what I got from Access's imported error table - once I Data-Typed the data in the column as "Number" the table uploaded into BI quietly. with over 10,858 rows in this table (..and this is test data) it was easily over looked  

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