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RasW
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Power Query data merging problem

I need to merge two tables: sales $ values and the quantity. The first table has quantity and I am trying to get sales $ values from the second table. Both tables have 12 matching fields. I am getting an error "power query merge dataformat.error we couldn't convert to number detail 'c1'". I removed all errors and blank rows from my data. Still, I cannot merge those data. 

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Thank you for your quick response. Since I am not authorized to share my data I was preparing a mock sample set. Then I found my original data have some empty cells. (I removed empty rows/errors in later steps, somehow it didn't help and I got an error when I was merging two data sets).

I replaced those empty cells with zeros in the original data, then the problem was solved. 

Again thank you very much for your willingness to help. I am new to Power Query, I may need your help in the future.

Thank you!

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Can you post some sample data and some M code?

Thank you for your quick response. Since I am not authorized to share my data I was preparing a mock sample set. Then I found my original data have some empty cells. (I removed empty rows/errors in later steps, somehow it didn't help and I got an error when I was merging two data sets).

I replaced those empty cells with zeros in the original data, then the problem was solved. 

Again thank you very much for your willingness to help. I am new to Power Query, I may need your help in the future.

Thank you!

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