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Combining several imported sheets in one QUERY fails

Merging several imported sheets into one QUERY gives parse, array or column-shift errors.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

7 public reports · first reported 1 September 2019 · last reported 23 August 2024

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What's going wrong

People who combine data from several identical source files into a single summary table, using a query over several IMPORTRANGE blocks, get formula parse errors, array literal errors, or results where the second source lands in the wrong columns.

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