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If you provide a database for the Name argument, Word will automatically use OLEDB if there is an OLEDB provider installed that supports the database format.Įxample. To specify OLEDB as the data access method with OpenDataSource, supply the Name argument with the path and the file name to either the database or an Office DataSource Connection (.odc). OLEDB is the recommended data access method. Different combinations of these three arguments represent different data access methods for the mail merge. Of primary interest for connecting to an external data source are the Name, Connection, and SubType arguments. So, go to the Home Tab and click on the “Close & Load”.For a complete description of each argument, refer to the Microsoft Word Visual Basic online Help.

At this point, your merged data is ready and all you need is to load it into your new workbook.

After that, double click on the header and select “Rename” to enter a name for the column i.e.

Here in the “Value to Replace” enter the text “.xlsx” and leave “Replace With” blank (here idea is to remove the file extension from the name of the workbook).

So, right-click on the column header and select “Replace Values”.

At this point, you have merged data from all the files into your power query editor and, if you look closely you can see a new column with the name of the workbooks from which data is extracted.

From here, the next thing is to select the table in which you have data in all the workbooks and yes, you’ll get a preview of this at the side of the window.

Now, you need to combine data from these files and for this click on “Combine & Edit”.

In the end, click OK, and once you click OK, you’ll get a window listing all the file from the folder, just like below.

Here you need to locate the folder where you have files.

For this, go to Data Tab ➜ Get & Transform Data ➜ Get Data ➜ From File ➜ From Folder.

Now, the next thing is to open a new Excel workbook and open “POWER Query”.

First of all, extract all the files from the sample folder and save that folder at the desktop (or wherever you want to save it).