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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_
    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

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Murat62
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8 years ago

Thanks for your answer

 

Source data is coming from the web page where i have a list of companies name, with address, city, phone,...

I copied & pasted it to an excel file and insert a column indicating name/category per row as "company name", "address", "city", "phone".

Nevertheless, from my knowledge, i agree with you it hard to transform this list into table. I did not find by myself any solution even if this issue or problem looks to me common one.

Logically speaking as an example every time we find an "A" category in "column" it should create a new record into the table. 

 

Best regards

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andris_
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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