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botaac
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Combine multiple rows into one row

I have the following table 

NameID1Item TypeID2ID3USD AmountID4RankContractsNotes
Bank1  8910      
Bank1    100SH782400  
Bank1123Vendor       
Bank1   456     

 

Utilizing DAX or Power Query, I need it to be transformed to the following

NameID1Item TypeID2ID3USD AmountID4RankContractsNotes
Bank1123Vendor8910456100SH782400  

 

I utilized the SUMMARIZE function and pulled all of those datafields into it, but still get the rows being separated.

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Syk
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In Power Query I pasted your data into a table and achieved that result with this M code.
The first thing it does is transposes the table so your headers are now rows in column1. Then I replaced all the " " values with nulls and created a custom column to get the first non-null value (the ?? in the code below means to coalesce) This gets the first value from each of those columns and returns it as 1 column which I named Value.
Then I removed columns 2-5 and pivoted the header column (column1) with 'Value' as the values using the "Don't aggregate" under advanced options of the pivot column dialog box.

Hope this helps!

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45W8kvMTVXSUfJ0MQSRJam5CiGVBRARIzBpDCRDg10UHHPzS/NKwEImQDIoMS8bSDnn55UUJSaXFAPZfvklqcVKsTrRSk5ASZB5ClBsYWlogMRFxdg0wLChAUhfsIe5BcgxJgYGWHUZGoEcGZaal5JfhNMafFaZmJphVx8LAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"(blank)" = _t, #"(blank).1" = _t, #"(blank).2" = _t, #"(blank).3" = _t, #"(blank).4" = _t, #"(blank).5" = _t, #"(blank).6" = _t, #"(blank).7" = _t, #"(blank).8" = _t, #"(blank).9" = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"(blank)", type text}, {"(blank).1", type text}, {"(blank).2", type text}, {"(blank).3", type text}, {"(blank).4", type text}, {"(blank).5", type text}, {"(blank).6", type text}, {"(blank).7", type text}, {"(blank).8", type text}, {"(blank).9", type text}}),
    #"Transposed Table" = Table.Transpose(#"Changed Type"),
    #"Replaced Value" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Transposed Table"," ",null,Replacer.ReplaceValue,{"Column2", "Column3", "Column4", "Column5"}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Replaced Value", "Value", each [Column2] ?? [Column2] ?? [Column3] ?? [Column4] ??[Column5]),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Column2", "Column3", "Column4", "Column5"}),
    #"Pivoted Column" = Table.Pivot(#"Removed Columns", List.Distinct(#"Removed Columns"[Column1]), "Column1", "Value")
in
    #"Pivoted Column"

 

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