Power Query - Merge table do not search in the entire table.

[__BigDaddy]

Hello,

After a long look at the web to find a solution. 

I have a small article table (80 rows) and I'd like to enrich it with a big general article table (50 k rows) and send back the information to the excel.
I'm working with power query in excel shared with other people so:

- I cannot just use the relationship

- I cannot insert the 50k rows in the excel to do a index, Match

- I don't want to use power pivot, because it is more complicated to send back data to final users.

The power query merge function seems to suit my need very well. 

But it seems to lookup only in the 1000 first rows over 50 k and returns only NULL.
I test with an article in the 1000 1st rows and it works well. 

Is there a solution for the merge to work on the entire data table, please ? 

Thanks a lot. 

[Vijay_A_Verma · Accepted solution]

Merge query has no such limitation. You must check whether those cells match or not. 

You can do following to test. 

Insert an Index in your lookup table. 

Let's say your matched value is in row 15100 for which you are not getting result. 

Apply a filter on Index for >15000. Now your looked value will be within 1000 rows limit which you are talking about.

So perform merge on this filtered table to establish whether values are matching or not and whether 1000 limit which you are talking about is correct or not.

[__BigDaddy]

you are right after reaching the data, and past it in notepad I figure out there is space behind it. 
I beleived the "clean" function will prevent this kind of mistake, but it seems the "trim" function only work. 

Thanks a lot. 

[__BigDaddy]

I precise the pivot columns are all cleaned.