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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

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smpa01
Community Champion
7 years ago
let
    Source = Web.Page(Web.Contents("https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/How-to-transform-excel-text-list-to-table/td-p/288742")),
    Data0 = Source{0}[Data],
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Data0,{{"Column1", type text}, {"Column2", type text}}),
    #"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(#"Changed Type", [PromoteAllScalars=true]),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Promoted Headers",{{"Column", type text}, {"Text", type text}}),
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Changed Type1", {"Column"}, {{"Count", each _, type table}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "Custom", each Table.AddIndexColumn([Count],"IX",1,1)),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Count"}),
    #"Expanded Custom" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Removed Columns", "Custom", {"Column", "Text", "IX"}, {"Custom.Column", "Custom.Text", "Custom.IX"}),
    #"Removed Columns1" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Expanded Custom",{"Column"}),
    #"Added Prefix" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Removed Columns1", {{"Custom.IX", each "record" & Text.From(_, "en-US"), type text}}),
    #"Pivoted Column" = Table.Pivot(#"Added Prefix", List.Distinct(#"Added Prefix"[Custom.Column]), "Custom.Column", "Custom.Text")
in
    #"Pivoted Column"