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Help with Dates!
AnneConway1 You can use the 'Append' option in Power Query to stack all this data into one big long table. I also recommend a DimDate table too. https://excelwithallison.blogspot.com/2020/04/dimdate-what-why-and-how.html
When you pull the data into Power BI, click 'Transform' then Home > Append Queries as New > three or more tables > select all the months you want in your report (note this is the manual way and you will need to add each month in each month, but is the 'novice' way. Eventually would be good to pull these through automatically as the spreadsheet grows but that requires manual coding). Right click on the the names of the months in the Queries pane on left and untick the 'Enable Load' box. This will ensure you don't pull the data through twice. You can also rename your 'Append1' query to something more meaningful.
Thank you so much AllisonKennedy Current feeling like I'll never get the hang of this 😐
AnneConway1 Don't despair- it's a marathon that takes practice but you'll learn bit by bit. One step at a time!
Hi AllisonKennedy I added the DimDate but I still get the same error.
I have one excel workbook with tables for each month (currently Aug - Oct) all formatted in the same manner.
I want to create a month over month report that shows totals for each month on different visuals. Using the last day of the month as the date for each month and then the values associated with that month.
The error I get is basically theat the data is not related.