Miguel Saez
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Importing data on Excel for Mac

How to integrate Alphacast with Excel for Mac?

image.png Alternatively, you can use the Data Snapshot link from any pipeline. Remember to choose the TSV link.

Step 2. Integrating with Excel

Open Excel on your Mac, go to the Data tab in the top menu bar.

Click on Get Data (Power Query) and Select Get Data (Power Query) from the dropdown menu.

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Choose data source: Blank query from the options

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In the Connect to the data source tab, you need to paste the dataset URL and then run the following query. After that, press Next to visualize the table.

Csv.Document(Web.Contents("CSV link"))

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Finally, set up your table by selecting the first row as headers.

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Step 3. There is no step 3. Enjoy!

Miguel Saez

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