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Software ==>	Power BI (160 exercises)
Topic ==>	Query editor (9 exercises)
Level ==>	Relatively easy
Subject ==>	Power BI training

Use Query Editor to load and tidy up a list of FTSE share prices

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Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file .

Create a new Power BI report.

Load the data from the workbook in the above folder - you should see something like this:

The initial list of shares, which is begging to be tidied up!

In Query Editor, carry out the following transforms:

Choose to Use First Row as Headers (this may not always be necessary).
Remove all but the first, second and fifth columns.
Rename the remaining columns as shown below.

You should now be looking at something like this:

The remaining table of data.

Your prices are left-aligned, which suggests that Power BI is treating them as text. Change the data types of the last two columns so that they are (decimal) numbers: