Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "This function is used by the Web Data Connector (WDC) (Get Data | Web) to return the contents of an HTML web page as a table, as shown in the following M Query:"

A block of code is set as follows:

// Retrieve table of data access M functions and their descriptions
let
  Source = Web.Page(Web.Contents("https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/mt296615.aspx")),
  PageToTable = Source{0}[Data],
  ChangedType = Table.TransformColumnTypes(PageToTable,
 {{"Function", type text}, {"Description", type text}})
in
    ChangedType

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "The Data Gateway item from the download menu in the preceding image currently links to a Power BI Gateway page with a large Download Gateway button at the top."