You just received a workbook and imported a table into Power Query. The query is named "Northwinds" instead of a more expected name like "Table$3."$

You didn't change the name. So how did "Northwinds" appear?

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After importing the source table into Power Query, a list of options for naming the query was given, and "Northwinds" was selected.

The sheet name is "Northwinds."

"Northwinds" was the name of the first column header in the dataset.

The source table on the worksheet was already named "Northwinds."