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ktt777
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Add customn column

hi ,

 

i want to add a new column with the value equal to a sepecific cell in the file.

For example, all the value in the new column is equal to row 5 of Data.Column3 

How can i do that? 

thanks alot

 

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HotChilli
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You can refer to items in a list with curly brackets so something like this in the 'add new column' :

#"Added Custom"[Column1]{7}

So it's     previous_step   column_name   list_index

 

Indexes are 0-based so the above returns the 8th item

 

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HotChilli
Community Champion
Community Champion

You can refer to items in a list with curly brackets so something like this in the 'add new column' :

#"Added Custom"[Column1]{7}

So it's     previous_step   column_name   list_index

 

Indexes are 0-based so the above returns the 8th item

 

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