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Hi Everyone-
I have to append/merge15 excel spreadsheets for building dashboards. Each spreadsheet has between 40-60 columns. Column headers are not same either. However, for the purpose of dashboards, I need only 10 columns(consistent through out each spreadsheet) to merge. Can anyone please suggest the best way to approach this scenario?
Thank You!
Union with Summarize or add columns can work.
Or you can refer : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-shape-and-combine-data
union(
summarize(table,table[date],"Var","Variable 1", "Sum",sum(table[variable 1]), "Count",count(table[variable 1])),
summarize(table,table[date],"Var","Variable 2", "Sum",sum(table[variable 2]), "Count",count(table[variable 2]))
)It is not necessary to have aggregated columns in summarize
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