Hi Jon, tried to apply this technique to merge Cost data to Sales data by item code to derive profitability. A large majority of the merged data works - big thanks! But I notice that for only a few selected item codes, duplicate sales data are created in the merged data table. What are the possible reasons for that, and what can I do to avoid creation of duplicates? Thank you!
FINALLY, I found your video that solves my issue. Thank you, thank you and thank you. I self-learned just enough to use Access to combine several data tables but then realized I can't use it online nor in the MacBook. So, I need to switch back to Excel and Excel has improved to 'Power Query' stuff in which I am not familiar with at all. But you have saved my day.
Thank you! the first attempt, it got all messed up and I was ready to give up "oh it does not apply to my case", then I tried again and worked beautiful. My case was whenever there is a country in one column, the race column needs place race name automatically. Example: If Ukraine country, then Race column-cell is 1-White, if Mexico, then 3-Hispanic; if China, then 4-Other Asian; if Phillipines, then 9-Filipino, and so forth. for this process I was using the Xlookup. So today first time used the PowerQuery. I handle 100 + data and no way I will type race for each country.
HELP Please! I ve used Merge before and it was working fine. But now, for my table with 80,000 rows, PQ is creating millions of rows based on the other table I am merging with, which is bizarre! Any solution around this? Its not even loading :(
Tremendously helpful, thanks for sharing! I had a table of 213K+ unique values that I needed to merge with a csv of over 4M records (too large for a xlsx table) and this did the trick.
To merge (not append) do all tables have to be in the same sheet? My question is, can we have multiple Excel workbooks in a folder, be merged into a separate file, where this separate file keeps getting updated whenever the folder is updated ?
Hi Jon.. thanks for this quick tutorial on Merging Queries to mimic VLOOKUP. Always learn something new at your channel and at your web site. Also, really appreciate that you give access to the sample data to allow for following along with the video. Thumbs up!!
It seems that "merge" is the incorrect naming for that function... that is more like a "link tables / relationship" alternative... a merge would be more like getting 2 different tables with similar columns and put them together as a new one bigger table (merge).
Hi Alberto! 😊 Thank you for pointing this out, as definitions can be tricky at times. For putting two tables together with similar columns to make a taller table, Power Query uses the term "append." You'll see the Append Queries button directly below the Merge Queries button under the Home tab in the Combine section.
What if I want to merge two tables without a lookup happening.. I just want the second table to be appended to primary table in the output of a brand new table.....
Hi Fav! 😊 In that case, you can use the Append Queries button. It is located below the Merge Queries button which is shown at the 2:29 mark in the video.
I have a situation where i use IFERROR(VLOOKUP between two excel files. If the vlookup result is not found using the primary key then i use the secondary key to lookup. Can you help me how to do this in PowerQuery?
Hey Jon, Sorry this is unrelated to the video but I have been racking my brain trying to figure out what excel is trying to do with some of my inputs. When I put in my dilution labels, e.g. 1:50, 1:100, 1:200, etc. Excel is changing them to 0.07638r, 0.111r, and 0.18055r. I recognize that just changing the format of the cell to text will fix the issue of the "auto-fix," but I am confused as to what excel is trying to represent. It's not the division as you might expect for calculation of a ratio, as that would show 0.02, 0.01, and 0.005. Any guesses what is happening here? I'm probably just forgetting my grade school math...
Thanks for the vote! I'll add it to the list. It's been awhile since I've done a RU-vid video on Power BI. We also have a full Power BI Online Course that's part of our Elevate Excel Training Program, if you are looking more comprehensive step-by-step training. Thanks again and have a nice day! 🙂
Hi. Thanks for the video, this was very close to what I'm trying to do, but not quite. Let's say I have a customers table with cusID and cusName columns. I would like to have another table where I enter the order information, called orders I suppose. when I enter a customer ID into the orders table, I would like the orders.customerName to update automatically. I don't want to create a merged new table, but rather pull that information into the orders table itself. Is this possible using either the Data Model or Power Query, or should I just stick to using XLOOKUP?
I am using a lot of this method to do my reconciliations for suppliers account. Thank you so much! It is a job saver! Now, my question is, I have made data connection to pdf files (statements of account) and created my power query. I noticed that if someone make any changes to the pdf file, e.g: re-name it or even delete it from our shared location, I lose the connection and messes all what I’ve done. To save my work, I did copy the table to a normal excel file, however, is there any way to repair the connection? Replace the connection by adding the link to another copy of the same pdf file that I used before? Do you know what I mean?
Hi thanks for all these great videos really helping me to sort all my personal and professional info... My question is, Could you do the merge query with an approximate text match? its the same example as your video only the Orders DB matching column has an approximate "fuzzy" match... Kind of like using wildcards with the merge query Thanks
Is it possible to have more than one lookup column? Let’s say both tables contain Customer ID and Department ID columns. In the second table, contact info is different, depending on the combination of those two columns. Is it possible to merge by using two or more lookup columns?
Very nice , how can I Marge I modified table(Marge1) with another single table , knowing that the first table has a hide principal value , I've been trying to do this but it gets repeat some values
Hi Jon, I am using version excel 16 and under Data option in the ribbon, I cannot see the from table/range option.I see options of of get external data or new query.Can you please guide me.
Thank you Jon, I have successfully merged many tables but I can not figure out how to either conditionally merge tables or use the equivalent of the DAX LOOKUPVALUE function. From my SQL Database table I have 2 queries and I need to be able to retrieve data from Query 1 Column C based on both Column A & B values and place this data in Query 2 based on Column B & D in Query 2. Is there any way you know how to do this?
Minute 6:10, instead of adding a new sheet, can you replace an existing sheet? The reason I ask is, I have formulas that go to one of the connecting table, I would like to update the information and not have to create a new sheet with new information.
Thank you Jon.I have a number of Sheets limited to 32 columns each so I may use a Form to enter data in each sheet and then I am combining them in one sheet of 255 columns or less for a mail merge, so this is just what I needed.
Sir I used separate Power query to append Gross sales of various Branches to find total Gross sales and Sales return of various Branches to find total sales return in two different sheet, in one sheet total Gross sales and in other sheet total sales return. To find Total Net sales, I manually reduce sales return from gross sales. Sir is there any way to do this all calculation in power query itself.
I want to ask a question it's not regarding this video but hope you answer it I have seen a couple of videos to create a search bar in excel to look through the table I have done all the steps correctly as described by many but it gives an error of formula I have done it 100 times exactly as it was described by some people. Need help.
Very helpful video but I'm having trouble getting my connection only table query to be visible from the primary table that I am merging into. Do these tables have to be sheets of the same excel file (like they are in your vid)? I feel like that isn't the issue because you specifically mention they don't even have to be the same file type. But clearly I'm missing something obvious.
