Power Query and Excel Number data type formatted with thousand seperators

lmk001

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My values in excel are comma seperated number values [TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD][TABLE="width: 209"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD="class: xl63, width: 209"]NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[TD][TABLE="width: 111"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD="class: xl65, width: 111"]EMPLOYMENT[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]91,365[/TD]
[TD]1,603,567[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]738[/TD]
[TD]6,410[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

When I load this into Power Query the commas disappear. When I try to load it back into excel the number formatting is no longer using thousand seperators. How do I keep the thousand separator formatting when loading my table from Power Query to Excel?
Thanks!
 

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I think I can help a bit.

Ignore what PQ does when it loads the data into the engine. But you can format the cells in the columns of the Excel Table that PQ creates. To preserve the cell formatting upon Refresh, click on a cell in that Table, go to the ribbon and select Data | Queries&Connections | Properties and then click the checkmark to preserve cell formatting (and also uncheck the column width one).
 
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