Combining every 2 rows

[Anonymous]

I am attempting to combine every 2 rows together so: rows 1 and 2, rows 3 and 4, rows 5 and 6 and so on.

How would I do this in power query?

[PaulDBrown]

You could create a duplicate of the table. In table 1, add an index column starting at 1; in Table 2, add an index column starting at 0. Then merge both table based on the index columns

[PhilipTreacy]

Hi @Anonymous 

Download example PBIX file

You could transpose your table then merge pairs of columns, then transpose the table again (back to rows).

But without seeing your data I don't know if that is a viable solution for you.  You might have too many rows to do this by hand initially.  Please supply some sample data or preferably your PBIX file.

Regards

Phil

[Anonymous]

Here is a sceen shot of the data if that helps:

For the company opportunity column I am wanting to have data in row 2 appended on to row 1, with the same pattern continuing for row 4 being appended to row 3, but just for the company/ opportunity column so that I can go through and delete the even rows that have the null value. Thanks so much!

[PhilipTreacy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous 

Download sample PBIX file with the following code

This query does what you want.

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("jZLLTsMwEEV/ZRQ2IFVg59HHEtIiELQUWHQRdeEmQ7Hk2MEPVeHrcaIuQEWpJVuW7PG5M3emKCISjSJyTbrjkoBqUJobAqVQBqsrf3nH97BS3LSwVFZpE21HRSSdEP7tePj10jRKWye5beECaJykfdw5+FLtuEDIVd0w2YagPXkShH5m5lsoeJSVM1ZzDEs8nWR9HO24cTLNBhTypxm8Y+m0/xsCTyg9dYX24L9c3RrLBOQCmYYNs6hh7VU+OAbaT9JfVQyZ9Habvwa5TrJT1/9Jfa4O0voNK77/tKVwuyBj4nTax407bjc8QyljBQ9+DhEWXw671jIZIjIjNA4anLlGVh+UFhUspPfeMi5rlDZEZJwcK0nOqWyYrFD7hsJ9HkJO09iTtz8=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Value = _t, Expected = _t, #"Next Activity" = _t, #"Company / Opportunity" = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Value", Int64.Type}, {"Expected", Int64.Type}, {"Next Activity", type text}, {"Company / Opportunity", type text}}),
    #"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"Changed Type", "Index", 0, 1, Int64.Type),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Index", "Custom", each if Number.Mod([Index],2) = 0 then try Text.Combine({[#"Company / Opportunity"], #"Added Index"[#"Company / Opportunity"]{[Index]+1}}, "," ) otherwise "" else ""),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Index"}),
    #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Removed Columns", each ([Value] <> null))
in
    #"Filtered Rows"

Regards

Phil