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I have 33 Tables in a PowerBI Report, 30 of them are coming from a SQL database and 3 are tables in an Excel file
I want to do a relatively simple transform on 2 of the tables from Excel but they don't appear in the Power Query editor as options and if I write my query with M in a new Blank Query I get errors "The Name '{TableName}' wasn't recognized." is this a limitation of Excel as a data source? I haven't tried this approach before but reading around it sounds like other people are able to transform excel data sources so I'm not sure what I'm missing.
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Thanks that's not it, but I removed them and re-added them and they appear now - not sure where I went wrong. Thanks for your time.
Make sure those tables are structured tables not ranges. It means that you selected those one by one, pressed CTRL+T to convert them into structured tables.
In Power BI Desktop, under Home tab - Click Excel workbook - Navigate to your Excel workbook and then open it.
Now, all 3 tables will appear.
Thanks that's not it, but I removed them and re-added them and they appear now - not sure where I went wrong. Thanks for your time.
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