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    Power query Date Column Starting today

    I've had a go a creating a date column starting 'today' for a given number of days,
    and have done so, but I'm not sure if it's the best way essentially

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    Can anyone suggest better ways of doing this?

    I've attached the file.

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    Re: Power query Date Column Starting today

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    We would very much like to help you with your query, however you need to include code tags around your code.

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    Re: Power query Date Column Starting today

    Sorry
    Thought that < and > were I've added [ and ] , if this isn't correct I can always delete altogether and just leave the workbook.

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    Re: Power query Date Column Starting today

    I told you how to do it:

    Please take a moment to add the tags. Posting code between [code]Please [url=https://www.excelforum.com/login.php]Login or Register [/url] to view this content.[/code] tags makes your code much easier to read and copy for testing, and it also maintains VBA formatting.
    I did not mention using < or > at all.

    I have done it for you (corrected your attempt).
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    Re: Power query Date Column Starting today

    I've had a look at what you've done,
    Not sure how to do that, how do you actually do that 'box ' thing, not trying to be difficult , honest,
    I read this second, so sorry about previous reply asking for an example which you've given,

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    Re: Power query Date Column Starting today

    Juat click EDIT to see the post in the edit window and you will then be able to see the [CODE]Please [url=https://www.excelforum.com/login.php]Login or Register [/url] to view this content.[/CODE] tags I added. That's all you need to do.

    Easiest way: select the code and click the # button on the edit toolbar.

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    Re: Power query Date Column Starting today

    Personally, I'd not add the column to the table. But keep it separate and use Index column to relate the two.
    But other than that, only recommendation is to use
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    This isn't critical in most cases, especially when calculation is done once. However, since you are iterating over each row. It is best to use Fixed, so that it does not change value within context of the expression.

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    Re: Power query Date Column Starting today

    Thanks, I'll have a look at fixed.local.

    Not used that,
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