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Alessandro-laba
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4 years ago
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Hi all,   I am running a skill matrix on my team and in few questions we are asking them to give themself a score on few categories. For instance in Excecel they can select between 5 options: Novic...
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    Vijay_A_Verma
    4 years ago

    Since, there are many columns which you need to make this replacement and you don't want to create new columns, I would suggest you should do this in Power Query which will do the replacement within the columns themselves

    Select all columns which are for questions

    Transform - Replace values - Replace Novice with 1. Do the same for other words as well with their respective values as well.

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Vijay_A_Verma
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4 years ago

Since, there are many columns which you need to make this replacement and you don't want to create new columns, I would suggest you should do this in Power Query which will do the replacement within the columns themselves

Select all columns which are for questions

Transform - Replace values - Replace Novice with 1. Do the same for other words as well with their respective values as well.