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How can I get the data from excel files from a folder for a Power BI Query?
- 5 years ago
Hello Anonymous
you can click on the double arrows on the content-column (this is the content of the Excel-files). Power BI opens an assistant to choose your sheet name. Afterwards Power BI creates a custom function to read from every file (uses all the time the same sheet name).
After that you can go to the query "Transform Sample File" to change the steps applied to every file (here you can choose promote headers, or whatever you want to apply to every the choosen sheet-name of every file
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Jimmy - Anonymous5 years ago
Anonymous
You cannot combine multiple excel files with different schema. For example, you can combine the first two files but not with third file.The combined result is following, if you use the first file of combination.
With different schema, you can only import excel files separately into power bi desktop, then do further transformation.
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Thanks to everyone who provided a solution. I was able to overcome the "issue" by opening the excel files and "enabling editing" and saving and then closing the file. After these steps, the Power BI query started importing all the rows in the excel files that are stored in the source folder.