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ovonel
Post Prodigy
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official tutorial is wrong?

I am following the guide:

Get started with Power BI Desktop - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

 

Where they mention:

"In the From Web dialog box, paste the address https://www.bankrate.com/retirement/best-and-worst-states-for-retirement/ into the URL field, and select OK."

 

Then they add:

 

"The query functionality of Power BI Desktop goes to work and contacts the web resource. The Navigator window returns what it found on the web page, in this case an HTML table called Ranking of best and worst states for retirement, and five other suggested tables. You're interested in the HTML table, so select it to see a preview."

 

I am suppose to see:

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But instead I see:

ovonel_1-1665308352457.png

 

How is itpossible that the official tutorial is wrong? Or am I missing something?

 

This is very demotivating for a new user...

 

 

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Greg_Deckler
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@ovonel Well, the dangers of basing your tutorial on a website that you don't control. It's likely that something has changed on that website that is preventing Power BI from picking it up as a table. I'll report the issue in the Issues forum. That tutorial has been around a long time and likely the documentation needs updated.



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Greg_Deckler
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@ovonel Well, the dangers of basing your tutorial on a website that you don't control. It's likely that something has changed on that website that is preventing Power BI from picking it up as a table. I'll report the issue in the Issues forum. That tutorial has been around a long time and likely the documentation needs updated.



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