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MichaelJ64
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Troubleshooting - calculate only current step

Hello community,

 

Is it possible to tell the power query editor to only recalculate the current step?  I am finessing my code and at the moment when I test, it (seems to) fetch my data again.  I don't need it to do that, indeed I don't want it to as it is very slow (previous question on NOT importing Excel named ranges only their names but on my system 'Excel.Workbook' generates not only a table showing the contents, but also reads in each).

 

Many thanks,

 

Michael J.  (new to Power BI)

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Jimmy801
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Hello @MichaelJ64 

 

when you loaded data of a query into BI and you don't want that this data is reloaded, unflag the "enable load"

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Copy paste this code to the advanced editor in a new blank query to see how the solution works.


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Jimmy

 

Hi Jimmy,

 

Thanks for your help.  I had a go with your approach but sadly it hasn't helped.

I also ran into the problem with Table.AddIndexColumn wandering off into another dimension. I have programmed around this one.

 

Michael J.

 

P.S.  Thank you for your prompt response and I apologise rudeness in being so slow to acknowledge your help.

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