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william barker

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October 12, 2019 - 6:18 am
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Hello,
 
I have 3 sets of 36 columns that i would sum into 3 columns
36 month total sales history
36 month Processed sales history 
36 month total validated forecast
 
 
With all sets of columns i am hoping power query can aggregate the data with columns that contain the same end text (without  the date references) because they change monthly.
 
I did not see if power query has some type of wildcard functionality to look a the headers
 
* Processed Sales History
 
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Mynda Treacy
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October 12, 2019 - 9:28 am
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Hi William,

Welcome to our forum!

Unpivot the values columns. Then split the column containing the label; Total Sales History, Processed sales history, total validated forecast. Then you can use GroupBy to summarise them. Then you can pivot the column containing the labels. See file attached.

Mynda

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william barker

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Mynda,

 

This is exactly what i was looking for!

 

Thank you !

 

Bill

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