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Power Query Tricks

This document provides 5 Power Query tricks that may not be widely known. #1 discusses enabling Fast Data Load to speed up query load times in Excel. #2 advises preferring to reference rather than duplicate queries to avoid repeating steps. #3 recommends hovering over the green line under column headers to check data quality and clicking the 3 dots for transformation options. #4 suggests converting values to lower or upper case before using VLOOKUP due to case sensitivity. #5 describes using the "is" keyword in custom columns to check data types. The document concludes by advertising an M Course to master Power Query beyond the user interface.

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Power Query Tricks

This document provides 5 Power Query tricks that may not be widely known. #1 discusses enabling Fast Data Load to speed up query load times in Excel. #2 advises preferring to reference rather than duplicate queries to avoid repeating steps. #3 recommends hovering over the green line under column headers to check data quality and clicking the 3 dots for transformation options. #4 suggests converting values to lower or upper case before using VLOOKUP due to case sensitivity. #5 describes using the "is" keyword in custom columns to check data types. The document concludes by advertising an M Course to master Power Query beyond the user interface.

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5 Power Query

Tricks
You probably don't know about
#1 - Run Queries Faster

To speed up the query load time, enable Fast Data Load.


This will disable any parallel Excel operations and allocate
all the RAM for processing queries. This option is only
available in Excel, not in Power BI.
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#2 - Referencing vs. Duplicating
If you want to reference or duplicate a query, just right-
click on it. Opt for referencing to link to the original
without repeating steps, which is typically preferred.
Choose to duplicate only if you need to completely redo
the process.

Prefer Reference
over Duplicate.

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#3 - Check the Data Quality

Just hover over


the green line to
see a quick
report.

Click on the 3 dots


to get some quick
options for data
transformation.

Look for the green line under the column headers, Hover
over the line to see a quick report if all data is valid and if
there are any empty rows.

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#4 - Lower Case Before Applying
VLOOKUP

Right- Click

Power Query is case sensitive so while applying a lookup


it’s a good practice to convert the lookup value to lower /
upper case for consistent results.

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#5 - 'is' Keyword Trick
You can use the 'is' keyword in a custom column to check
data types for primitive and structured values.

Custom Column Formula

=[Col1] is text

=[Col1] is number

=[Col1] is list

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