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theu1996
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6 years ago
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Adding a character to certain values in a column

Hi,   I have a list of machines and plants and in the Excel source, my machine column was saved as a number instead of text and a number of machines lost the 0 in front of their name. Is there a wa...
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    v-easonf-msft
    6 years ago

    Hi , theu1996 

    As mention by  UAV-Test-Pilot  ,If the data is lost in excel，I would suggest you to  format  you table column as text in excel before  you enter data.

     

     

    Then check whether the data lost in data previews.

     

     

     

    For how to fill in the missing data, please follow the steps below：

    1.exacte the first character of  column"machine"

     

    2.create custom column "missingdata" as below:

    custome column formula as belowL

    =if [Plant] = 17 and ([First Characters of Machine] <> "0")  then 0 else ""

     

     

    3.merge column "misssing data" and  column"machine"

     

    pbix attached

     

    Best Regards,
    Community Support Team _ Eason
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UAV-Test-Pilot
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6 years ago

theu1996  In your excel source, is the leading 0 there?

 

If yes, then you can change the formatting of the column to be text in PowerQuery, but be sure to do this step above any automatic formatting PowerQuery already applied to the source, as that is what is dropping the information.

 

If no, you can create a custom column to add the 0, when plant = '17' like this:

if ([Plant] = "17" and [Machine] = "211") then "0211" else if ([Plant] = "17" and [Machine] = "306") then "0306" else [Machine]

 

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