How To... get your data column names to show up properly in Power BI
Published 18 days ago • 1 min read
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Hey there Reader, This week's post is all about one of the most common data cleaning activities that has to be done in Power BI using Power Query Editor... getting your column names to actually BE your column names.
Sometimes, when you connect to data like an Excel sheet, Power BI can't read the column names in your Excel sheet properly (it's not your fault, it's Power BI's) so you have to help it out a little bit... How To... get your data column names to show up properly in Power BI
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