Power Query #6: 12 Tables Into One Table With Just A Click: Combine Files Button

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This video teaches you how to use the From Folder feature and Combine Files button to append files from a folder, whether Csv files, Excel files or other file types. 12 tables into one table with just a click!
Topics:
1. (00:00) Intro Song
2. (00:11) Introduction
3. (00:42) Download files so you can practice
4. (01:06) Folders of files, On Premises Folder Path, and how the structure of the data in each file MUST be the same
5. (01:34) Folders with CSV Files
6. (01:43) Folders with Excel Files
7. (01:47) VERY IMPORTANT NOTES about structure of Excel files
8. (03:33) Import folder of CSV files using the From File / From Folder feature in Excel
9. (03:48) Import folder of CSV files using the Folder feature in Power BI Desktop
10. (04:32) Binary M Code Values
11. (04:51) Filter out non-CSV files
12. (05:20) Table.SelectRows function
13. (05:38) Remove Other Columns (Keep Content Column Only)
14. (05:53) Table.SelectColumns function
15. (06:08) Combine Files button to create helper queries, query steps, and append all the tables.
16. (06:23) Make sure delimiter is a comma
17. (06:44) What the Helper Queries, Custom Function, and New Applied Query Steps do and what they mean
18. (08:51) Load the Appended Table to the Worksheet
19. (09:14) Add new CSV files to the folder, refresh query and the Appened table updates with new data
20. (10:06) From Folder feature and Combine Files button to append data from 12 Excel files
21. (10:35) Make sure to select an Excel Worksheet object that represents the structure in all the other Excel files to this automatic process can build the correct M Code for the Append Query
22. (11:09) Look at Automatic M Code that assures that only Worksheets named “Sheet1” are imported when the custom function is used.
23. (11:29) Custom Function is invoked in each row of the table with the Binary Column filled with Excel files
24. (11:51) Close and load new append table to the worksheet.
25. (12:00) Summary
26. (12:24) Closing

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