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Murat62
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8 years ago
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How to transform excel text list to table

Hello every one,   Firstly thanks for your coming support.   As an example, i would like to transform in power query the excel text list below   Column Text A regerge B ere C et...
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  • andris_'s avatar
    andris_
    8 years ago

    Hi Murat62,

     

    I'm not sure if I get this straight, but based on what you had said, my understanding is the following:

    The category column (named Column) is recursive, and whenever the sequence starts from the beginning (with "A" value), the record number increases with 1. 

     

    So, based on it, I don't know if there's any solution in the Power Query for that matter, but I figured out a way in Excel: if you create a new column with the following formula, you'll get the record numbers:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    =IFERROR(IF(A1>A2;C1+1;C1);1)

     

    If you load this table into PBI, you can create the pivot table in the Power Query you wanted. (with Column From Examples or even in Excel with the concatenate formula you can get the "record 1", "record 2"... format easily)

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Let me know please if it solves your problem and whether it was helpful or not.

     

    Best regards,

    Andris

Murat62's avatar
Murat62
Regular Visitor
8 years ago

Thanks for your quick answer.

 

I already tried to pivot this excel text list after importing it with power BI desktop.

 

It did not work in a way i got only counting numbers and not text values as i would like

 

 

Regards

 

v-jiascu-msft's avatar
v-jiascu-msft
Microsoft Employee
8 years ago

Hi Murat62,

 

Do you have any more information of your source table? Such as more columns. It's hard to create a table like yours with DAX and M based on my knowledge. I have tried a lot. One simple problem is it's hard to identify which records are record1.

 

Best Regards!

Dale