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Using Combine .csvs for 5 identically formatting CSV files in powerquery. I have a field called 'DATE' which is the first column in the files, and the row values are loading correctly for the first csv file, but for the following 4 files, I'm losing the row values in the column DATE in the other csv's. They are blank, but in the source file csvs they are not. Any ideas?
Power Quey is case sensitive. So an easy explanation would be that there is a slight deviation in writing. (also spaces and non printable characters could cause problems - Text.Trim and Text.Clean would help.)
Another troublemaker are additional columns, as the automatic expansion that you're using here creates a hardcoded value of columns to expand. Removing that solves that problem.
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