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tanvirr76
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Power Query Auto Complete issue

Hi, I was an Excel user and recently trying to get into Power BI. I am having this irritating issue with Power Query autocomplete. For example when I write Table. it suggests some functions but when pressing Tab the function becomes TableTable.ToRows(). 

 

I have looked into this issue everyone says they find this troubling, especially Excel users like me but I have yet to find a solution.

Is there anything I can do to solve this issue and still keep my habit of writing dot(.) and then tab to autocomplete?

 

Thank you for your time.

 

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BA87
New Member

Skipping the dot works. Thanks MPerry! What a stupid bug!

MPerry
New Member

I heard something intresting about this.  Skip the dot.  Instead of typing "table.tor" for example to get it to suggest "Table.ToRows() . . . type "tabletor" without the dot.  It totally worked for me.  Credit to Leila Gharani for that stress reducer

Thanks mate. That worked.





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danextian
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That is something we have to live with while not fixed yet. That is an issue in both Excel and Power BI Desktop.





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