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theu1996
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Moving a query written in Word to Power Query

I had to write a long conditional column argument and did so in Word since it would cause Power BI to run out of memory on my computer if I did it all in there. When I copy and paste it into the Add Column pop-up, it will not recognize the text as valid due to the " not being the right one. I cannot go through and replace them all in BI without crashing the program, and have not been able to successfully use Find and Replace to replace Word's " with the Power Query accepted one. Is there an easy way to change the quotation marks?

 

Thanks

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Anonymous
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Hi @theu1996 ,

 

The unicode in Word and Power BI are different. Paste the code into Text or Excel and replace the quotation marks.

 

Best Regards,

Jay

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Anonymous
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Hi @theu1996 ,

 

The unicode in Word and Power BI are different. Paste the code into Text or Excel and replace the quotation marks.

 

Best Regards,

Jay

amitchandak
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@theu1996 , Try on text pad

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harshnathani
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Hi @theu1996 ,

 

You can try using notepad++.

 

Regards,

Harsh Nathani

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