Now we will use the Close & Load command. The dialog box will remind you of a classic Find and Replace Window. We will use the Transform/Replace Values command. In the City column, a question mark has replaced the apostrophe so we should revert those changes. With that done, we attend to the specifics in our data. So we select the column and go to Home/Data Type and select the appropriate data type. Now we have the data we need, we just have to tell Excel what that data is. …and then remove the rows containing Name (these are the header rows of other txt files) Now we remove the blanks (since all rows contain the name, than these must be the six rows at the beginning of all txt files)… At the beginning, the filter only shows you a limited amount of records and you must use the Load more command shown below. We will be using the filter in the name column to do that. But the same six rows from other txt files in that folder are still there, appended bellow. Now if you can imagine, this took care of the first six rows from the first txt file. So from the dropdown menu we choose Remove Top Rows…Īs the three dots at the end of the command suggest, you get a dialog box, and all that it needs from you is the number of top rows, you wish to remove (in our case that is 6).Īfter that we will choose a simple Use First Row As Headers command. We will do some data transforming by mostly using the dropdown menu button we talked about before.įirst off, we will delete the top six rows. But pressing this button will show exactly that.Īnd now the fun begins. The reason we need this button is that at this point, we are seeing the list of files in the folder but not the content of those files. But the other is even more important in this first stage and that is the double down arrow in the Content column. And we will use many of them during this process. The above picture also shows two buttons we will use magnified, since one hides the dropdown menu of most used commands in Power Query. Once you choose the folder, you get what will soon become your favorite window in Excel. This will open a Choose a folder dialog box, where you can choose any folder you like (even folders on SharePoint). On the Power Query tab select From File and then From Folder. Here’s how you do it with Get data from folder command in Power Query. So every month we have to remove the top six rows, correctly import the columns and add them to previously imported data and analysis. Let’s say that every month, we get a new txt file that is just an export of data that we want in Excel so we can analyze it. You could write a macro that did the import and accounted for all specifics in your data. Before Power Query was “born”, the only tool at your disposal for easing of the process was VBA. In the beginning that is great, but in time you would much rather be creating great dashboards and charts and not repeating the same imports or copying over and over again. Working with Excel will sooner or later get you in a position where you will be repeating one and same actions periodically. When I first found this command, my enthusiasm about Excel doubled over night (and that is saying a lot). And now for the Get data from folder command. Everything you read about in this post refers to Excel 2010 and Excel 2013 for which Power Query is available. It’s part of Microsoft Power BI and is even incorporated into the new Microsoft Power BI Designer. Power Query is an Excel Add-In that was created to help you get data into Excel or Power Pivot. But first, let’s explain what is Power Query. Now this will be reduced to copying that file to a certain folder and clicking refresh in Excel. If you get new data periodically in any form (txt, csv, xlsx…) then you know that what that means is that every time you have to go through the same process to get that data into Excel.
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You can read it here and I recently followed up with a post on how to make the process bulletproof and you can read that here. Trust me, you will not regret it! Here’s what this post will talk about.įollowing a wide demand, I also wrote a post about getting data from Excel files in a folder. Take the time and read this post and think about how to implement this in your work. But it will also show you how Get Data From Folder command in Power Query can make your life easier. This post will show you only one of them and that is a Get Data From Folder command in Power Query. Power BI is all in all a set of brilliant commands. One group that gets the new Excel (2010 or 2013) but still uses the application as if it’s Excel 2003 and those are users that may have heard of the whole Power BI thing but think that the whole Power BI story can only benefit certain people. It seems that lately Excel users can be separated into two groups.
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