Is there a way to ignore data format errors and proceed with a query?

[Anonymous]

My raw data comes from a dataset that I cannot modify. When I try to load it into power query and use it in a query merge, I get a data.format error (for a certain column) that certain values cannot be parsed into dates. The thing is, I set the column type to "text" so I would assume there wouldn't be values that need to be parsed as dates... but I'm still getting that error. Is there a way to tell power query to ignore data.format errors? It would be a major pain to locate the values that are causing the issue because I have so many date and non-date values in that particular column.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

You can try “Replace Error” feature.

Replace null with errors.

The column is still in date type, and the error is replaced with null.

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

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[Syk]

Are you merging into another table that has the column type set as date? Also, when you load data it likes to add a changed type step that tries to detect your data types. Experiment with removing this step as it may be trying to convert it to a date.