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Power Query Editor: File -> Options & Settings -> Query Options

Global

Data Load

Type Detection: Choose one of
  • Always detect column types and headers for unstructured sources
  • Detect column types and headers for unstructured soruces according to each file's setting
  • Never detect column types and headers for unstructued sources
Default Query Load Settings
  • Use standard load settings
  • Specify custom default load settings (Load to worksheet or Load to Data Model)
  • Fast data Load
Data Cache management Options
Clear cache

Power Query Editor

Layout: Tick or untick
  • Display the Query Settings pane
  • Display the Formula Bar
Data Preview
  • Display preview contents using a monospaced font
  • Show whitespace and newline characters
Parameters
  • Always allow parameterization in data source and transformatino dialogs
Formula
  • Enalbe M Intellisense in the formula bar, advanced editor, and custom column dialog.

Security

Native Database Queries
  • Require use approval for new native database queries
Certificate Revocation Check
  • Enable certificate revocation check
Web Preview Warning Level
  • Strict
  • Moderate
  • None
Approved ADFS Authentication Services

Privacy

Privacy Levels
  • Always combine data according to your Privacy Level settings for each source
  • Combine data according to each file's Privacy Level settings
  • Always ignore Privacy level setting

Diagnostic Options

Diagnostic Options:
  • Enable tracing
Enable or disable Crash Dump Collection

Current Workbook

Data Load

Type Detection
  • Detect column types and headers for unstructured sources
Relationships
  • Create relationships between tables when adding to the Data Model for the first time
  • Update relationships when refreshing queries loaded to the Data Model
Background Data
  • Allow data preview to download in the background

Regional Settings

Locale

Privacy

Privacy Levels
  • Combine data according to your Privacy Level settings for each source
  • Ignore the Privacy levels and potentially improve performance

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