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Where has the start import from Line x gone?

craigja
8 - Asteroid

Im importing and XLS file and the headers are in row 2 - on 2021.4 I don thave the option to select the line number to start importing data from...

 

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IraWatt
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hey @craigja,

It is probably because the version of excel its reading is from 1997-2003. You can use the sample tool to skip the first row then use a dynamic rename tool to replace the headers with the top row of data.

craigja
8 - Asteroid

Yeah just done that and it works fine, just thought I was missing a trick!

 

IraWatt
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Here's an example workflow of how to do this:

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IraWatt
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

ah nice ! glad you got it working @craigja :)

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