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AaronMichels
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Global Renaming of Column Headers to show the Table (data source) name

Hi, new power BI user here.

 

I've got a bunch of tables that have very similar data in them that I'm looking at together.  So I have a bunch of columns with the same header name. When I start pulling fields into visualizations, the source of the data thus gets confused. Is there a way to globally rename all of the column headers so that instead of fields being named:

 

Column 1, Column 1, Column 1, ...

 

I can see Column headers named as:

 

Table 1 Column 1, Table 2 Column 1, Table 3 Column 1, ...

 

Thanks!

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tjd
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Yes.  The manual way would be to go to the data view and right-click each column header and select "Rename".  The quicker, and more efficient way is to do it via your data input query.

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tjd
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You might want to view this YouTube video on how to do this: Add prefix to headers in Power Query #1: Cleaning Data with M

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tjd
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Yes.  The manual way would be to go to the data view and right-click each column header and select "Rename".  The quicker, and more efficient way is to do it via your data input query.

tjd
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Impactful Individual

You might want to view this YouTube video on how to do this: Add prefix to headers in Power Query #1: Cleaning Data with M

Thanks! super helpful.

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