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HamidBee
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4 years ago
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Cleaning Data, Fill Down

I'd kindly like to ask how to remove the dates from the this column so that they are blank and then replace the blank cells with the region by filling down. So basically the dates should be replaced ...
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    Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Hi HamidBee ,

     

    Please try the following formula to directly tranform the column instead of adding a new custom column:

      #"Transformed Column"= Table.ReplaceValue(Table.TransformColumns(#"Changed Type",{"Column1",each Text.Remove(_,{"0".."9"})}) ,"//",null,Replacer.ReplaceValue,{"Column1"} ),

     

    Best Regards,
    Eyelyn Qin
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Anonymous
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4 years ago

Hi HamidBee ,

 

Please try the following formula to directly tranform the column instead of adding a new custom column:

  #"Transformed Column"= Table.ReplaceValue(Table.TransformColumns(#"Changed Type",{"Column1",each Text.Remove(_,{"0".."9"})}) ,"//",null,Replacer.ReplaceValue,{"Column1"} ),

 

Best Regards,
Eyelyn Qin
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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HamidBee
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4 years ago

Thank you for your response. I'll give this ago and see how I Find it. My manager showed me a quick way to di it in Excel. Create a column numbered from one to however many rows you have. Sort the dates/string column by alphabetical order. The dates will all be grouped together, delete the dates and then sort again by the new ID column you created. It may be better in this instance to clean it in Excel just because the data set could be large. Having said that I really like your solution, I wish I could one day get to that level of coding.