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Issue with Header Names in Power Query

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Posted on by 4,808 Super User 2025 Season 1

I am new to Power Query.

I am attempting to transform my data and I am getting an error message that says my header column 'Employee Name' of the table wasn't found, even though I can see it in the formula and on the table.

What am I not understanding or misinterpreting?

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    Jacqui Muller Profile Picture
    64 on at
    Issue with Header Names in Power Query
    @Phineas & @LoganK What I've also found is that, depending on the source (especially Excel), the column names are in the first row. Then you need to promote (use) the first row as headers before trying to transform the type.
  • CU13030628-0 Profile Picture
    2 on at
    Issue with Header Names in Power Query
    looks like data source changed, check the header of source table firstly.
  • LoganK Profile Picture
    6 on at
    Issue with Header Names in Power Query
    Hi @Phineas! I am running into this very issue at the moment. Did you find a solution?

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