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Expression.Error: We cannot convert the value to type Text.
I did find what was throwing off the error.
The original source of the table was a folder with dozens of Excel files with multiples sheets within them. Combining these sheets with PQ into a single table, I missed a step by removing Rows that are blank. When I explicitly defined the column to be Text, which both contains values that can are Text (H007074686, H007074680, H007074689) and Number (1043672) as well as the Blank rows, the step was throwing off an error on both the Blank and Number values. When I removed the Blank rows, Change Type now works and the Merge is no longer throwing off the error.
Perfect. But still no idea why the blank row would mess with the Change Type step. Hopefully someone can shed some light.
Cheers,
David
For me it was a Text.Trim on a cell with a number in it. Applying trim from the gui changes type to text if it sees that there are numbers in the column, but if the column type is 'any' and there are no numbers in the first 1000 rows, then there is no text conversion before the trim and that throws trim off.
And since it happens after the first 1000 rows, you can only see the error during load.