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DevadathanK
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4 years ago
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Power Query Merge/Append "Expression.Error: We cannot convert the value "[Binary]" to type Binary."

Hello Community!   I'm facing an issue in Power Query and can't seem to find a reason to why its happening. I could really use some advice on the reason to the problem.    This is the error I'm g...
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    DevadathanK
    4 years ago

    So, I moved one of the excel files to the SharePoint where the other file was being stored and this error is not shown anymore.

    From this, I'm assuming that its an issue (a compatibility issue of some kind) between the two SharePoint sites, as switching them solved the issue. Like I stated before, the privacy levels of both are set to 'Private' and the only difference that I could see is that in one SHarePoint site i'm a Member and in the other one, I'm the owner. Not sure if this is the issue. 

    So, work around 2 - Store the files within the same SharePoint site
    Reason for the error? - Still a mystery

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Anonymous
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4 years ago

If you are facing this problem in Dataflow:
Go to Project details and mark 'Allow combining data from multiple sources...'.

 

 

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    Anonymous
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    3 years ago

    Solved my problem - thank you! 🙂

    I had the issue within a dataflow, merging data from two excel files which are stored in the same SharePoint.