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Catalin Bombea
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RE: Specific table name that is generated by a power query

Hi Bruce, PQ will name the queries after the source. If it's a folder, the query will have the folder name as the query name. If it's a table, query ...

8 years ago
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RE: Sorting Multiple Columns

Hi Julie, Indeed, some operations are not preserving the order of the rows. To overcome this, before removing duplicates add an index column, then ...

8 years ago
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RE: From Folder with really dirty data?

You can use a folder query, that will provide the list of files, but use the cleanup query from file that you already have as a function, it's easy to...

8 years ago
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RE: Identify member id in a column using numbers and alpha

Hi Yaksh, First, make sure your ID column is a text column. I think you should use 3 conditions, text length = 10, rightmost 1 char is not numer...

8 years ago
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RE: Power Query 3.02 Worksheet improperly formatted - Errors

Hi Robert, In 3.02 you are adviced to use : Excel.Workbook(File.Contents ("INSERT YOUR FILE PATH HERE")) not what's written in your message: E...

8 years ago
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RE: how to understand a recorded macro - please!

Hi Tina, When this macro was recorded, a sort was the only action applied to Emails sheet. Most probably, the other sheet has TRIM formulas, but th...

8 years ago
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RE: How do I split out data into different columns when there's no apparent way to parse them out

Hi Anne, First, the Total rows should be removed, you don't need them, as you will most probably create your own reports. After you do this, a p...

8 years ago
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RE: How do I split out data into different columns when there's no apparent way to parse them out

Hi Anne, Fill Up/Down will not work until you have null's instead of blanks. Before Fill Up/Down, Replace "" with null in the columns you want. ...

8 years ago
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RE: 3.02 Removing Repeating columns header rows by column format by Date error

Hi Karen, You can try the column filter, to set a text filter, to filter out values from that column equal to "Column Name".

8 years ago
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RE: Have PQ load data but break it down onto different worksheets based on locations

Hi, Usually, it's about merging data with PQ, not splitting. Having the data spead across multiple sheets creates problems when trying to create re...

8 years ago
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RE: Dynamic File or Folder Path Privacy Level Error

Hi Shannon, Try Ignore Privacy Levels, on data source settings.

8 years ago
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RE: Excel Export

Hi Shea, What do you mean? PP charts and all others are built in excel sheets already.

8 years ago
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RE: Lift and shift row data to the left

You have to provide a criteria to power query, to identify the rows where data should be taken from another column. You mentioned row numbers, so I...

8 years ago
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RE: Repeat table rows based on the value in last column

Hi Vidak, You can simply add a column with this formula: =Text.Repeat("a",[Column5]) In column 5 should be the count you want for rows to be ...

8 years ago
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RE: Lift and shift row data to the left

Hi Shannon, Keep in mind that Power Query does not preserve all the time the order of the columns , in some cases, after some specific operations n...

8 years ago
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