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Power Query not sorting Properly (Excel 2013)
Hello all, I am new to these forums so forgive if I am doing anything wrong. I have come across a problem with Power Query in Excel 2013. I am importing from a Table in a different Excel workbook, ...
To sort correctly you need to fox the table in memory. IMHO, Load to data model is not the optimal way for that.
I’m not sure what you mean by fixing the table in memory but I tried multiple solutions (sort by index, changing the data type, etc) and this was the only one that worked. Unlike for instance Pivot Tables, I also found no special benefits or changes by adding the data to the model so this solution didn’t really take away any “optimality” for me, on the contrary.