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Get Data from Excel: GhostSheet1, also defined Table vs raw data
- 8 years ago
The thing is your question doesn't really concern PowerBI:
When you export from Access to Excel it creates 2 things in Excel:
1) worksheet named after query/table you export
2) named ranged with only the used cells within that worksheet
I would use worksheet rather than range cause I don't know your process - when the data is updated you meay create a new file, update existing one, etc. - none of that is related to how Power BI handles it,
The guess is regarding your process, rather than what PowerBI will do - if you connect to worksheet it will extract all the cells with data, if you connect to range, it will only extract that range, it's very simple.
Hi BarryB,
Since the data in your excel file was from Access database. Why don't you just connect to Access database directly in Power BI?
Thanks,
Xi Jin.