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Get only unhidden columns in excel without manual selection in Query

Hi,

 

Is there any option to not get hidden columns in excel?

I have 100 columns such a lot but only 10 columns in use so I want to get only 10 of them. 

* the columns orders or format is chaning often so can't expect which columns would be hidden/unhidden every time so manual column selection in query won't help.

 

my previous question still unresolved. 

https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Desktop/Getting-data-only-from-unhidden-row-columns/m-p/38...

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Idrissshatila
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Hello @Anonymous ,

 

you can use the choose columns in power query to only choose the columns you need.

check it out https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/choose-remove-columns

 



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Idrissshatila
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Hello @Anonymous ,

 

you can use the choose columns in power query to only choose the columns you need.

check it out https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/choose-remove-columns

 



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