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Anonymous
8 years agoNot applicable
How to append only specified columns?
Hi, I am appending several tables into 1 big table. I don't need all the columns so I have manually deleted the unnecessary columns after the append. Please can you tell me how to specify which c...
BradZehr
6 years agoAdvocate II
You can specify specific colums during the Append step using Table.SelectColumns, as in:
Table.Combine({#"Query 1", Table.SelectColumns(#"Query 2", "Column Name")})
isThisABug
5 years agoFrequent Visitor
Hello BradZehr,
I had the same issue. I followed the same logic that your script has, but I didn't know how to write it. As far as I understand Power Query this is the most efficient way to do what Anonymous wanted to achieve. Thank you for your help! Already implemented your code and works perfectly 😄
Super kudo for you 👍