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Load in Excel Files with Changing Column Position and Names in Power Query Editor
I have an Excel file that looks similar to this table.
Though sometimes, the 4th and 5th columns get switched (including their values) and are renamed a little differently within Excel to look something like this:
How can I format it in Power Query Editor so that it would be able to load in both files with no issues?
2 Replies
- fooddCommunity Champion
By using Append Queries, you don't have to do any manual reordering
and the appended results will automatically append the correct columns.
= Table.Combine({#"Table1 (Col Order 1,2)", #"Table2 (Col Order 2,1)"})Here we have three queries:
- Table1 (Col Order 1,2)
- Table2 (Col Order 2,1)
- Append Table1 + Table2 (Col Order 1,2)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/append-queries
- Ashish_MathurSuper User
Hi,
The next time you post a question, please share data in a format that can be pasted in an MS Excel file. Sharing a picture just does not help at all. Try these steps:
- In a folder, store 2 Excel files - one with each table shown in your first post
- Load another table (called Replacements) in PowerBI. This should be a 2 columns table like this
Ensure that the entries in the first column or the Replacements table are spelled the same way (including upper/lower case) as those in yoru source tables . Now paste this code in the Query Editor
let Source = Folder.Files("C:\Users\mathu\Desktop\Data"), #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(Source,{"Content"}), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Removed Other Columns", "Custom", each Excel.Workbook([Content], true)), #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Content"}), #"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Removed Columns", "Custom", {"Name", "Data", "Item", "Kind", "Hidden"}, {"Name", "Data", "Item", "Kind", "Hidden"}), #"Removed Other Columns1" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Expanded Custom",{"Data"}), #"Standardised headings" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Removed Other Columns1", {{"Data", each Table.RenameColumns(_,Table.ToRows(Replacements),MissingField.Ignore)}}), Custom1 = Table.Combine(#"Standardised headings"[Data]) in Custom1Hope this helps.