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Anonymous
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Upload Most Recent/Last Sheet Only In Excel Workbook

Hello,

Is there any way to automatically have the PowerBI data show only the last sheet in a workbook? For example, I have 5 sheets in an excel workbook. I want to automatically have the last sheet (sheet 5) uploaded as my data, automatically. Is there a way to do that? Thank you!

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@Anonymous then it should be straight forward, once you connected to excel file,

- go to source step

- add new column from name and change its' data type to date (basically create date column from name column)

- sort on this column in ascending order

- keep first row  (it will remove all other sheets and most recent sheet based on the date will be the only row)

 

now expand the data column and that will do it. 

 

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parry2k
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@Anonymous is it always sheet5 or this workbook growing and there will be new sheets in the future? if yes, does the new sheet will always have incremental number, like sheet6, sheet 7 etc?



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Anonymous
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The workbook will be growing every month. The format currently is monthly. So the sheets are labeled as May 2020, June 2020, July 2020, August 2020. Every month there will be an added sheet for that month.

@Anonymous then it should be straight forward, once you connected to excel file,

- go to source step

- add new column from name and change its' data type to date (basically create date column from name column)

- sort on this column in ascending order

- keep first row  (it will remove all other sheets and most recent sheet based on the date will be the only row)

 

now expand the data column and that will do it. 

 

I would  Kudos if my solution helped. 👉 If you can spend time posting the question, you can also make efforts to give Kudos whoever helped to solve your problem. It is a token of appreciation!

Visit us at https://perytus.com, your one-stop shop for Power BI related projects/training/consultancy.



Subscribe to the @PowerBIHowTo YT channel for an upcoming video on List and Record functions in Power Query!!

Learn Power BI and Fabric - subscribe to our YT channel - Click here: @PowerBIHowTo

If my solution proved useful, I'd be delighted to receive Kudos. When you put effort into asking a question, it's equally thoughtful to acknowledge and give Kudos to the individual who helped you solve the problem. It's a small gesture that shows appreciation and encouragement! ❤


Did I answer your question? Mark my post as a solution. Proud to be a Super User! Appreciate your Kudos 🙂
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