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Rename columns in the Query Editor
From the course: Learning Power BI Desktop [Update]
Rename columns in the Query Editor
- [Instructor] Previously we created a file using data from Wikipedia, and it is called MyGDPs.pbix. And I encouraged you to save it in the exercise files in the chapter two folder. So, let's pop that open and learn a little bit more about how we're going to work with a particular semantic model like this one in Power BI. My overall goal across this movie and the next two movies is to use the Query Editor to create a list of the 25 countries with the largest GDP. That's the goal. When I expand our table, you'll see that our column names say Column1, Column2, Column3, down through Column7. Don't do anything to change those. But if we go look at our data, we'll begin to see what our issue is. And our issue is that we don't have our headings here at the top that tell us what each of these things are. So what we're going to do here in the report is we are going to open the Query Editor. We're going to go Home, we're going to go to Transform data and choose Transform data. And that will…
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