Importing data with characters not equitable for data loading

[RobRayborn]

I am pulling data from an SQL database.  One of the columns of this data has a text field where some of the records that use " to call out inches.  
When I Import the data these problem records split at the " mark and shift the fields in that record to the right after that problem cell.

This messes everything else up further down the line.

Is there a way to omit this column of data before it is imported in?  So far I havn't found an option to remove it before import.

[RobRayborn]

Though neither one of the solutions above would have worked, as shown, this turned out to be a non-issue.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @RobRayborn ,

You can remove the column with the text field that has the " character before importing the data. One way to do this is to modify the SQL query that you use to pull the data from the database to exclude the problematic column. Another way is to use Power Query Editor to remove the column after importing the data. To do this, you can select the column that has the " character, right-click on it, and choose "Remove". This will remove the column from the data set.

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

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