Hi. I need with the sample table below in power query. I have 1000+rows.
Is it possible to shift cells to right so that 'last name' text comes in one column and same with optional as one column just like first name and middle name column? Kind of like four types of data- First name, middle name, last name, optional. But data is uneven. Thanks.
| First name | Mike | Middle name | Ja | Last name | Optional | MJ | |||||
| First name | Tyson | Middle name | He | Also Sera | Last name | aa | Optional | TA | |||
| First name | Jake | Middle name | martin | Tyson | Last name | aab | bbb | c | d | Optional | JT |
| First name | Sam | Middle name | Patel | hara | paulini | last name | dg | gh | Optional | ST | |
| First name | Matt | Middle name | Johnson | Singh | Used | Last name | bb | Optional | MK | ||
| First name | John | Middle name | jake | Last name | hillman | robertson | Optional | JR | |||
| First name | Paul | Middle name | Ku | Last name | ali | Optional | PK | ||||
Hi Navneet,
There is no cell shifting in PQ, but you can perform other operations to join the names for example:
Add this step:
= Table.AddColumn(Source, "Custom", (x)=> Text.Combine(List.RemoveNulls(List.RemoveItems(List.FirstN(Record.ToList(x),List.PositionOf(Record.ToList(x),"Optional")),{"First name","Middle name","Last name"}))," "))
I did this in one step, but you can do it one step at a time: first convert to a list: Table.AddColumn(Source, "Custom", (x)=>Record.ToList(x)), then keep all before Optional item (List.FirstN), remove first-middle-Last entries, then remove nulls.
This will join all name pieces into one text, like: "Jake martin Tyson aab bbb c d" from your example.
This way, you can do any operations on the current row: for example, after you join names, you can keep all items after the Optional value, using the same technique.
