To understand this, you should know that Power Query has a 0 based system. The syntax is classic M, but the 8 might take you by surprise, since it was obvious that this value was in row 9. We will achieve this by pressing the fx button in the formula bar (if you don’t see the formula bar, you can turn it on by ticking the formula bar on the View tab)Īnd then adding the to what was there by default.Īfter you enter this, you will get the desired value. So just to keep the goal in mind, we need Cell C9 which at this point is number 64 in column Column3. Then choose the Special Sheet in the Navigator followed by the Edit command on the bottom right. I will choose File1.xlsx, so if you chose differently some steps may differ in view. Then find the folder and choose any of the Excel files. So we start in a blank Excel file and launch the Power Query ( Data/New Query in Excel 2016)/ From File/ From Excel ( From Workbook in Excel 2016) To wrap things up, we use our function on the right Sheets of the right files and create the desired column. Unzip all files to one folder and remember the folder location since we will need that further along the line.Īnd just for reference, and so we can keep our bearing at all times, here are all the steps needed for this to work
If you want to follow along, you can get the files here. We start with a folder of Excel files (I also planted a txt document in there just for fun)Īll Files have a different number in cell C9 of a sheet called Special Sheet. This characteristic shall be now listed as “Characteristic A”. Is there any chance to pull the values from a specific range of equally looking Excel files (all forms) and list them?Įxample: The cell C9 of all forms contains one product characteristic. I will draw inspiration from the last comment posted bellow the post mentioned above that goes like this This requires a few extra techniques and some high level Power Query stuff, so I decided that rather than trying to fit it all in a comment section of that post, I would rather do an incognito blog post. Almost all comments referring to the mentioned blog post asked for exactly this, how do I do it with Excel files. This post is obviously not regular, since it’s not Tuesday (now I feel like Julianne Moore in Laws of Attraction) J but it’s a spinoff of a post I wrote in February of 2015 called Get Data From Folder with Power Query. So the final step of Get Data From Folder will have to use a function of more than just one parameter. There is a key difference here since Excel files are different than TXT files in a way that they can contain multiple Sheets and Tables.
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Whereas that post was about getting data from multiple TXT files within one folder, this one will tell you how to get data from folder full of Excel files. I recently posted on how to make a process of getting data from a folder bulletproof.
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