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I have few columns of same table
Table A
ColumnX1 ColumnX2 ColumnX3 ColumnY1 ColumnY2 ColumnY3
A B C D E F
I wanted them as :
ColumnX A B C
ColumnY D E F
I can not create a sperate table and append it because there are so many columns and i cant create too many tables.
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@Anonymous,
To achieve your requirement, you may follow steps below:
Firstly, click ColumnX1, ColumnX2, ColumnX3, ColumnY1, ColumnY2, ColumnY3-> click Transform-> Unpivot Columns.
Then click Split Column by number of Characters.
Finally click Attribute.2 then click Pivot Column:
The result is like below:
Community Support Team _ Jimmy Tao
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
@Anonymous,
To achieve your requirement, you may follow steps below:
Firstly, click ColumnX1, ColumnX2, ColumnX3, ColumnY1, ColumnY2, ColumnY3-> click Transform-> Unpivot Columns.
Then click Split Column by number of Characters.
Finally click Attribute.2 then click Pivot Column:
The result is like below:
Community Support Team _ Jimmy Tao
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
@Anonymous
Please see if this helps
You can see the Steps from Query Editor in attached file
let Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content], #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"ColumnX1 ", type text}, {"ColumnX2 ", type text}, {"ColumnX3 ", type text}, {"ColumnY1", type text}, {"ColumnY2", type text}, {"ColumnY3", type text}}), #"Demoted Headers" = Table.DemoteHeaders(#"Changed Type"), #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Demoted Headers",{{"Column1", type text}, {"Column2", type text}, {"Column3", type text}, {"Column4", type text}, {"Column5", type text}, {"Column6", type text}}), #"Transposed Table" = Table.Transpose(#"Changed Type1"), #"Extracted First Characters" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Transposed Table", {{"Column1", each Text.Start(_, 7), type text}}), #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Extracted First Characters", {"Column1"}, {{"all", each _[Column2], type list}}), #"Extracted Values" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Grouped Rows", {"all", each Text.Combine(List.Transform(_, Text.From), ","), type text}), #"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Extracted Values", "all", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(",", QuoteStyle.Csv), {"all.1", "all.2", "all.3"}), #"Changed Type2" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter",{{"all.1", type text}, {"all.2", type text}, {"all.3", type text}}) in #"Changed Type2"
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