Excel is uploading data as 999+ columns (over 8000+). Help!

[powergirlnena]

Excel is uploading data as 999+ columns (over 8000+). I can't transform the data appropriately because the columns are never ending. How do I fix this? The other tabs in the spreadsheet are uploading columns normal. 

[Anonymous]

Hi @powergirlnena,

Did this workbook start with blank rows? If that is the case, you can try to use remove these blank rows in your workbook or add the 'promote headers' function in the query table to help power bi recognize your worksheets with correct cell ranges.

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

[jdbuchanan71]

If you go to the tab in the excel book and hit CTRL + End it will jump to the last used cell.  This is the bottom-right cell of what Excel thinks of as the "Used Range" and what power query reads from.

My guess is there are a bunch of columns of blank data that Excel thinks belong in the used range.

If you select all the empty columns that Excel thinks it is using and delete them, then go to cell A1 and save, it should reset the used range property.