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Power BI Community, I am attempting to link Power BI to a folder within my hard drive. The folder contains three identical excel workbooks. Each workbook represents a different month, otherwise t...
Confirm that the files have identical content you are importing. The tables linked to must be the same name, and they must have the exact same column names.
Otherwise you will have to import them separately using the Excel file feature vs the folder feature, and then clean them up in Power Query to get them to be identical, then append to one big table.
You may want to check if your Excel file by coincidence are binary files (xlsb). That can cause this error too. If so, just safe them as .xls or .xlsx