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Hello!
I have a problem with sorting columns. I have done two queries in two ways: I have one which has data from folder where is only one excel and second one which has data from folder where are several excels (different months' data). If I try to sort whatever column - in query which has only one excel for data, there is no problem with sorting, but in the second one it does not allow me to sort columns. It gives me a following error:
What could be the problem?
It has to be said that every other step I would like to do is possible in both queries, the sorting is the only problem.
Waiting for your ideas,
Kelly
Solved! Go to Solution.
@KellyLen, have you tried this?
or this:
Any possibility of posting the data? You might try a Table.Buffer as that often helps with sorting issues, although typically solves an entirely different problem.
Unfortunately I am not able to share data as it is very confidential. But data contains basically text columns and some date columns. I tried the Table.Buffer, but it did not made any difference, it still gave me the same error.
@KellyLen, have you tried this?
or this:
Are you able to reproduce the error on an obfuscated data set? Very difficult to solve if it can't be recreated.
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