Hi! I am working with a simple excel file with mutliple columns. I built a report with sample data I wrote before I uploaded it to PowerBI. I now want to copy paste the actual data. I am using data from a survey software called Qualtrics. What I have tried to do is download the data from the survey as an excel file (which has the exact columns as the original file), I then copy paste the new data into the orginal file and try to hit refresh but I am met with many errors (See below). When I manually add the data I don't get errors. It only happens when I copy paste but I can't manually rewrite all the data.
Hi! This is the error I get:
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