power query - combine 'from folder' and 'individual file' query

[67nmark]

Hello,

I have profit and loss data stored in separate Excel files. Each file is the same in structure so I thought I'd use a 'from folder' query. The basic structure is shown below:

What I want to achieve is create a column for the Company Name (always in cell A2) and a column showing end of month (always in A3). Is this possibe with a folder query?

Thanks in advance,

Mark

[Seward12533]

Yes but it woudl help alot if the data was in the format of table with the information represented as columns in the data table  (may require it)

Company    Month         DATA  Item 

ACME         6/1/2018      A        1 

[RBlake]

Thanks for the reply, I can use Power Query transforms to set up an individual file as a table and that works great. When I apply the transforms to a folder then the additional columns I have created for company name and date show the date and the company name and date for the latest file added, overwriting the entire company name column with that value.

I'm thinking that the from folder query option will only work with specific transforms but I'm trying to confirm this.

Cheers,

Mark

[ImkeF]

To make this work for multiple files from a folder, you have to transform your query into a function and apply that to all rows of the from-folder-table:

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar_fV_oXSNs

blogs: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2013/08/19/creating-power-query-functions/

https://www.mattmasson.com/2014/11/converting-a-query-to-a-function-in-power-query/

[Zubair_Muhammad]

@67nmark

Sometime back, I created few Custom Functions in Excel that could pull cell values from Multiple Closed Workbooks

http://www.excelnaccess.com/connect-multiple-workbooks/

But I prefer to use Power Query as well

[67nmark · Accepted solution]

Thanks very much. I ended up with VBA where I could record the query and then do everything else and the output is saved into the folder.

[v-chuncz-msft]

@67nmark,

Glad to hear that. You may help accept the solution above. Your contribution is highly appreciated.