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Kashibaba
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Oct 15, 2019

Power Query Excel data from Variable / Dynamic Worksheet...

Hi All,  I'm using power query to pull data from a weekly file via  filepath and name in cell reference, which is working perfectly. However when I change week number, worksheet name for next week f...
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SergeiBaklan
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Oct 15, 2019

Kashibaba 

You may change in Navigation step the code which is usually looks like

Sheet1_Sheet = Source{[Item="Sheet1",Kind="Sheet"]}[Data],

on

Sheet1_Sheet = Source{0}[Data],

Other words, use relative reference instead of absolute one.

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Kashibaba
Brass Contributor
Oct 15, 2019
Thank you Sergei.
I removed 1st column (Name) showing sheet name added by query itself and refresh query. It did work and now sheet Name column refreshing as well without extra hard coding. Also I don't have Navigation step in my applied step may be because of setting file Path for the source.
Thanks again for a quick suggestion which may be helpful in some other but similar cases.
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    SergeiBaklan
    Diamond Contributor
    Oct 15, 2019

    Kashibaba 

    Yes, that's also the way if you have only one sheet. The idea is when connecting to Excel file connector takes sheets one by one in sequential order. First record is always for the first sheet. Instead of taking it by record metadata you may take just first record. In your case both

    let
    Source = Excel.Workbook(File.Contents("C:\Test\Book1.xlsx"), null, true),
    #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(Source,{"Data"}),
    #"Expanded Data" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Removed Other Columns", "Data",...

    and

    let
    Source = Excel.Workbook(File.Contents("C:\Test\Book1.xlsx"), null, true){0}[Data]
in
    Source

    shall work.

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