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Anonymous
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Get Data From Excel Pivot Table

Hi folks,

My source is a specific Excel pivot table exported automatically from MS Project visual reports. This pivot table have 2 hierarchical level in columns : Year and Month, as shown here. Unhappily enough, year takes a line, and month a second line.

2020-11-03_1-xl-pivot.jpg

 

When I import it into Power BI Desktop october release, I get columns, but years and months are still separated.

 

2020-11-03_1-xl-pivot-inM.jpg

When I unpivot all months columns, I get a lot of "columnN" in the attribute column such as : 

2020-11-03_1-xl-pivot-inM_p2.jpg

 

What I did is to rename all columnN one by one with the corresponding month,

2020-11-03_170919.jpg

WHat i want is to get this (made with 10 replacements and a filter) :

2020-11-03_1-xl-pivot-inM_p3.jpg

 

How can I do to avoid manual renaming of columns and rename automatically columnN with MonthN (for instance Column6 = Janvier-2021)? I did it manually but this is not suited for repetitive use.

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Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous ,

Could you please make some adjustments in the excel file just as below screenshot? Then you can import the excel file into Power BI Desktop after adjusted and make other transformations base on your requirement. Any comment or problem, please feel free to let me know.

Get Data From Excel Pivot Table.JPG

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Community Support Team _ Rena Ruan
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lbendlin
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Please provide sample data in usable format.

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