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Bhavana_PB
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select multiple sheets from existing excel sheet.

I have this excel sheet where there are 5 sheets like items, order, purchase order etc.

Now when i connected to power bi,  i only selected items and clicked on load button. But now i want to go back and select orders sheet also. How do i do it ?? And also I have this region field and i want to convert the datatype to geographical field. Like the way you can do it in tableau. How do i do that too ? 

I cannot find option of editing my dataset. I am very new to power bi. Please help.

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v-qiuyu-msft
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Hi @Bhavana_PB,

 

When you get data from the Excel sheet, you can select multiple sheets within one workbook:

 

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To set a geographical field, you can change Data Category as Country/Region:

 

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Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu 

Community Support Team _ Qiuyun Yu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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v-qiuyu-msft
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Community Support

Hi @Bhavana_PB,

 

When you get data from the Excel sheet, you can select multiple sheets within one workbook:

 

q4.PNG

 

To set a geographical field, you can change Data Category as Country/Region:

 

q5.PNG

 

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu 

Community Support Team _ Qiuyun Yu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Hi,

 

But what if I select only one sheet from a excel file, and later on i decided to pull 2 more sheet from same excel file then ? I wanted that editing opition is that option present ?

But thank you for your responses now I can change the  data type of my region. 🙂

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