Suppressing blank query error message

[crossover]

Happy new year!

I realize it's PowerBI board, however I'm running PowerQuery for Excel purposes, but perhaps it doesn't play a big role. My PQ query loads xlsm files from a folder - which sometimes can be empty. The query fetches some named-range data from xlsm files to display and looks like this is where I run into issues. If there's nothing present, I'd like to receive a nice and civilized blank response, however once the query reaches M-code lines that fetch named range data, I'll get an error message that will result in a popup message (again - in a scenario when folder is empty):

[Expression.Error]: There weren't enough elements in the enumeration to complete the operation.

This also interrupts a scheduled process with this popup. On full disclosure: I launch this query from Excel via VBA-script and I could suppress this message by adding a "On Error Resume Next" command, though I wouldn't want to turn off error messaging fully.

The question to this board - is there a way to configure the query itself to just display blank result and not add the popup when the result is just a blank page? Looks like fetching specific data from inside the workbook is where things get derailed, before that line, I'll just get blank result when stepping through the M-code lines:

#"Expanded Table Column1" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Removed Errors1", "Transform File (9)", Table.ColumnNames(#"Transform File (9)"(#"Sample File (9)"))),

(there are several named-range data extractions, this is just the first one)

Thanks a lot!

[Jimmy801 · Accepted solution]

Hello @crossover 

you can use the error handler "try" and "otherwise".  so you could a statement like this

YourFinalResult = try Table.ExpandColumn(.....) otherwise YourExpectedResultWhenHittingAnError

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Jimmy