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Damian R

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Hi all, 

I have a dropdown list with multiple choices for an entire column. When I select more than 1 option, queries aren't performing by extracting the selected data to their corresponding tables.

How do I go about getting the queries to separate data?

 

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Hi Damian,

Can you please supply an example file so we can see what you mean and try to reproduce the problem?

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Hi Mynda, 

I've attached a testing sheet to look at.

On the main data tab, in column A is where my dropdown list is placed. Only the row containing TIPT is being exported to the TIPT tab.

 

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Hi Damian, 

The file didn't get uploaded. Please try again and be sure to click the 'start upload' button after selecting your file and wait for the green text notification below the attachments box to indicate uploading has completed.

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Take #2, sorry.

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Hi Damian,

You have filtered the column in the TIPT query for rows that 'equal' TIPT. Power Query is only finding exact matches, not any instance of TIPT along with other text. If you change the filter to 'contains' TIPT, then you get all the rows.

I must say, entering multiple values like this in a single cell is not how Excel is intended to be used. You will most likely come across other roadblocks when formatting your data like this. Ideally you should be structuring your data in a tabular format.

To fix the layout, you can use the Split Column by > Delimiter with the #(cr) custom delimiter and choose 'rows' under advanced options. This will create a separate row for each value selected in the drop down list in column A.

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