Power Query: Handling Percentages & Percent Totals

Calculating percentages in Power Query is not as easy as it is in native Excel.

– First, when using the interface to calculate values in 2 different columns, you have to select the columns in the right order.
– Second, If you have a column of amounts and want to get each entry’s percentage of the total, that’s not straightforward. We end up making a parameter of the total and then calculate the percentages using that parameter.

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