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Anonymous
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How remove the unwanted letters in a column.

Hello, 

How can I remove the unwanted letters in the category column below?
I want to remove the PV from each row. 
Thanks!

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Whitewater100
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Solution Sage

Hi:

You can do this a couple of ways I know. Here is a calc column:

New Cat = REPLACE(Data1[Category],21,2,"")
Whitewater100_0-1649347488201.png

You can also do in Power Query with ADDCOLUNM > Column by examples and type in first two and computer will catch on and fix all of them.

Hope this helps!

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Whitewater100
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

Here is Power Query fix:

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Whitewater100
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

Hi:

You can do this a couple of ways I know. Here is a calc column:

New Cat = REPLACE(Data1[Category],21,2,"")
Whitewater100_0-1649347488201.png

You can also do in Power Query with ADDCOLUNM > Column by examples and type in first two and computer will catch on and fix all of them.

Hope this helps!

Anonymous
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HEY @Whitewater100  Thanks! It was really helpful. 

Great! Thank you..

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