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How to FIND the source of 'DataFormat.Error: Invalid cell value '#NAME?'.'
- 3 years ago
Hi Netrelemo
You can apply those steps :1. From the view tab check on the option "Column quality"
2. If you have more than 1000 rows, you can test all of them if you change the default option:
Just click on the bottom left inscription and choose "column profiling based on all data set"
3. On hovering the mouse cursor on the place of statistics of quality m select the option of keep errors:
In this way you will stay with your problematic rows and their details :
You can also refer to the Microsoft documentation about the issue :
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/dealing-with-errorsfrom the part :
Handling errors at the cell level
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Well, I've managed to solve my problem from a different angle.
Use Python.
A short script of 20 odd lines pulls 45,000 rows of data in less than 1 minute, and no frustrating "I can't do this" from PowerQuery on an Excel source.