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Gadwood74
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7 years ago
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Addcolumn + format + &&

Hi - newby here. I want to add a column in a table from 2 fields: Account and sub account.   The account is 123 Sub account is 45   My standard GL format is "000000-0000"   I'm looking for th...
  • HotChilli's avatar
    7 years ago
    = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Custom", each Text.PadStart([Column1], 6, "0") & "-" & Text.PadStart([Column2], 4,"0"))

    Make sure that the two fields are text before this line.  I think there's a slight mismatch between your format ( is "000000-0000") and the result you gave (00123-0045)