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mraka9
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Helper III

Textual Search

I'm trying to do a simple thing, but it seems to be extremely complicated. I have a table and I would like to filter items based on a column containing text. I need a textual filter:

  1. to display all items that contain a specific word
  2. to display either one word or another (or)
  3. to exclude words that I specify.

I need these combinations of filters to perform precise searches, considering that there are longer textual descriptions. I need to incorporate this into a report so that I can manually enter words into each of the mentioned filters as needed. Thank you in advance!

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lbendlin
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your "simple thing"  is far beyond the capabilities of Power BI.

 

If this is important to you please consider voting for an existing idea or raising a new one at https://ideas.fabric.microsoft.com/?forum=2d80fd4a-16cb-4189-896b-e0dac5e08b41

Thank you!
Later I saw the request so I voted 🙂
Kind regards,

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