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dpenny's avatar
dpenny
Helper II
9 years ago

changes not being saved ??

I am new to DeskTOP BI but an Excel guru. I thought this would be easy, ha ha ha.  The interface isnt easy....

 

I load a csv from my PC. It seems fine except, header row is being treated as data. Dumb program, it is a csv.

Anyway, I used a query to "delete" first row and renamed cols from "colum 1" to appropriate. same to other cols also.

 

Now the problem, I save it as a pbix file, BUT when I come back and open this file, the header row is present and cols are back to "column1 " etc.  In short, my changes were not save.

 

Now I am afraid to do anything meaningful since changes are not being save.

 

Whats up??

11 Replies

  • You can use promote header to get column header, try this:

     

    - go to query editor

    - click down arrow as shown below to open a menu

     

     

     

    - Select "Use First row as headers"

     

    • dpenny's avatar
      dpenny
      Helper II

      Thanks, I've got that now.

       

      BUT

       

      AFter making that change, saving, and exiting the DskTop prog, it is gone when I come back 1 hour later.

       

      why not saved?

      • dkay84_PowerBI's avatar
        dkay84_PowerBI
        Microsoft Employee
        Did you hit "close and apply" from the query editor before saving the pbix?