Nice video and tips... "shift + 9", I'll only add that the concept behind is: mark the text and "open whatever bracket you need", then you'll have the seleted text with both ( ), { }, [ ].

@AccessAnalytic

Ай бұрын

Cheers

I've watched many related videos but the way you explain is way more clear and simple. Thank you so so much

@AccessAnalytic

4 ай бұрын

No worries, thanks for taking the time to leave a kind comment

@dirkstaszak4838

12 күн бұрын

what would be the short cut for a German Excel Verison?

@AccessAnalytic

11 күн бұрын

I don’t know sorry

very nice lecture specially: Shift+Down Arrow selects the step name, then Shift+9... wonderful

@AccessAnalytic

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Zahoor

Very informative! Love the clear explanation. 🙏🏿

@AccessAnalytic

Ай бұрын

I appreciate you taking the time to let me know you found it useful

Easy Peasy; Thank You so much!

@AccessAnalytic

2 ай бұрын

You’re welcome.

That's a lifesaver! It's exactly what I need for my current task at work.

@AccessAnalytic

11 ай бұрын

Excellent

Hi Wyn, My approach was: Use Headers as first Row, Transpose, Apply transformations needed to column 1 which contains the names of the original columns. Transpose, Use first row was headers

@AccessAnalytic

Жыл бұрын

Nice technique with a small data set. Not sure what would happen with 500,000+ rows

@alexbarbucristi

Жыл бұрын

@@AccessAnalytic Thanks for the heads up, will stop using it

Hi Wyn, great video, really useful. Thank you. 👍👏

@AccessAnalytic

6 ай бұрын

You’re welcome

Awsome! I have seen other long approaches but this is the one. Thanks a lot Wyn

@AccessAnalytic

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome

Awesome tips!!!

@AccessAnalytic

Жыл бұрын

Cheers 😀

Very Useful 😮 Impressive 👏

@AccessAnalytic

Жыл бұрын

Cheers

very helpful, thanks

@AccessAnalytic

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome 😀

Hi Wyn, Here's a one step solution that gets straight to the point. In your rename step use this formula: = Table.TransformColumnNames(Source, each Text.AfterDelimiter(_,"_")) and be done with it. 🙂 You're welcome.

@AccessAnalytic

Жыл бұрын

Nice Geert

@AccessAnalytic

Жыл бұрын

I added it to the description section

@txreal2

Жыл бұрын

Where is the time stamp for this step? Thanks Geert

@AccessAnalytic

Жыл бұрын

@@txreal21:21

@marcelakarinalopezortiz3373

Жыл бұрын

@@AccessAnalytic do you have a similar solution when you want to add a prefix/suffix?

awesome!

@AccessAnalytic

Ай бұрын

Cheers

Thank you so much!!!!

@AccessAnalytic

11 ай бұрын

No worries

Excellent

Love it

@AccessAnalytic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Great video! Related to your “clicks” comment, how much M do you write in your work now? I feel like I’ve reached a place with PQ that that is what I should focus on now, but seldom feel like I have a use case that can’t be solved with the “clicks.”

@AccessAnalytic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, probably 10% on average is hand written code

Nice trick. And I love Shit + 9 😉

@AccessAnalytic

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Frédéric

@GrainneDuggan_Excel

Жыл бұрын

Fantastic timesaver and frustration remover! Wish I knew Shift+9 sooner! Thanks Wyn!!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

@mcnater

Жыл бұрын

@@GrainneDuggan_Excel what does Shift + 9 do?

@GrainneDuggan_Excel

Жыл бұрын

@@mcnater watch at about 2:35 min when you type a function name then Shift+Down Arrow selects the step name, then Shift+9 puts the (before and )after!!

@AccessAnalytic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Grainne, i wish I knew it sooner too 😆

Sir, plz make video for below. If 1 table has 9 column, 2 table has 10 and 3 table has 8 . Then how can we make equal all column for all table.. like we want to insert dummy column for missing column in tables and make equal like 10 column for each table.

@AccessAnalytic

6 ай бұрын

That should happen automatically. Tables don’t need the same number of columns

When I refresh query once i get a new file, will it read the data?

@AccessAnalytic

5 ай бұрын

Yes it will

Still getting error. I jave two tables 2022sales, 2023 sales. In first file i have columns carname, year, number of units sold, country. In secnd file i have diffent name number of units as (units) and county as (place) . Ihave created maping tabme exactly and turn it to rows and using in my sample file query. Now the second still shows error not displaying records.a red line across all headers. All date types are checked though

@AccessAnalytic

3 ай бұрын

If you’re running this on a folder of files then you might want to add MissingField.Ignore Something like Table.RenameColumns(_,{{"Product","Item"}}, MissingField.Ignore) This should handle the fact that the columns you’re renaming don’t exist on one file

I have spreadsheet with new and old columns names. I see there are lot of steps in video. Could you please let me know how to rename the columns in the table using the spreadsheet. I tried few steps what you showed in the video. getting error like cannot convert a value of type table to type list.

@Mohammad-rz7oj

Ай бұрын

Sorry it is working now. Just small doubt, could you please let me know whether we can get rid of spreadsheet once we rename the fields so that we dont have any dependency on the spreadsheet

@AccessAnalytic

Ай бұрын

@Mohammad-rz7oj the Power Query code pulls the data from a source and loads it to a destination. If you never to update or refresh the query then yes you can delete the source.

@Mohammad-rz7oj

Ай бұрын

@@AccessAnalytic Thanks for the reply. All these calculations are not working for directquery. What i did instead is wrote a calculation in excel to concatenate old and new column names and updated those in M Lang in Powerquery editor.

How would you handle the error that the field name already exists in the record? I have that error and although I can tell the rename function how to handle missing values there isn't anything tat will say this is what to do when you have an existing name.

@AccessAnalytic

11 ай бұрын

Not sure, maybe some sort of pre check on the renaming table and add a 2 if text already exists if List.Contains( Table.ColumnNames(OriginalTable), [NewName] ) then [NewName] & "2" else [NewName]

@PeterWalker

10 ай бұрын

@@AccessAnalytic sounds like a course of action. Thanks for the response!

I have a question based on the power query how can I get in touch with you? Do you have an email address or any other means of communication apart from this platform?

@AccessAnalytic

Жыл бұрын

Check out the description for my links, also for most questions I point folks to techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-excel/ct-p/Excel_Cat?WT.mc_id=M365-MVP-5002589 And community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-Query/bd-p/power-bi-services

Will this approach work if i unpivot data? And download link is not working

@AccessAnalytic

6 күн бұрын

You can’t use button clicks on user interface if connection to data isn’t working. Unpivotting is a good technique to avoid referring to columns

I keep getting We expected a RenameOperations value error.... :(

@AccessAnalytic

12 күн бұрын

Not sure sorry.