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Anonymous
7 years agoNot applicable
One Column but different data grouped
Good Morning, I am working with data in excel and it comes in seperated by lines but when imported into excel it is one main column and reads the Region / Area / store number all as the same ...
- 7 years ago
Hi Anonymous ,
We can split column in power query like this.
M code for your reference:
let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCkpNz8zPU9BXcCxKTQRSxSX5RakKeaW5SalFSrGxAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}}), #"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Changed Type", "Column1", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter("/", QuoteStyle.Csv), {"Column1.1", "Column1.2", "Column1.3"}), #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter",{{"Column1.1", type text}, {"Column1.2", type text}, {"Column1.3", type text}}) in #"Changed Type1"
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7 years agoHi Anonymous ,
We can split column in power query like this.
M code for your reference:
let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCkpNz8zPU9BXcCxKTQRSxSX5RakKeaW5SalFSrGxAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}}),
#"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Changed Type", "Column1", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter("/", QuoteStyle.Csv), {"Column1.1", "Column1.2", "Column1.3"}),
#"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter",{{"Column1.1", type text}, {"Column1.2", type text}, {"Column1.3", type text}})
in
#"Changed Type1"