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D_HL
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3 years ago
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Help with Excel Data in wide view, over multiple sheets

Good morning all, I hope you are well.  I'm trying to work out the most effective way to tackle a data set I have been asked to produce visuals from. The excel sheet consists of separate sheets, ...
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    v-jingzhang
    3 years ago

    Hi D_HL 

     

    This article will be helpful: Combine Multiple or All Sheets from an Excel File into a Power BI solution Using Power Query Dynamically - RADACAD

    Notice that in the following step, you need to keep "Name" and "Data" columns. The "Name" column contains sheet names that represent the attributes you want. 

     

    After expanding Data column and filtering out unnecessary rows per your need, you can select Both Name and Data columns at the same time, then unpivot other columns to get a long view table. 

     

    Hope this helps. 

     

    Best Regards,
    Community Support Team _ Jing
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D_HL
Frequent Visitor
3 years ago

Thanks Jing, 

 

Go it to work on most sheets, if one of the sheets' values were a % would that mess things up? 

 

Thanks
Dan 

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    v-jingzhang
    Community Support
    3 years ago

    Hi D_HL 

     

    I think that will not mess things up. But you need to pay attention to the data type of columns. You can change the data type of a column thus all values in the same column will be in that data type. I recommend that you change data types after transforming the table into the expected format. 

     

    Best regards,

    Jing