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vishal17081990's avatar
8 years ago
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Need help on power query

Hi All,   i am having data as below in single row for multiple questions:   Column1.q1.question Column1.q1.options Column1.q1.answer Column1.q2.question Column1.q2.options Column1.q2.answ...
  • drewlewis15's avatar
    8 years ago

    First, select all columns and choose to "Unpivot Columns" (found on the Transform tab).  This will unpivot your table to look like this:

     

    From here, split your Attribute column by delimiter (.) to get the question number and the category into separate columns (you can then simply delete the column that references "Column1" in all rows.  Should end up looking like this:

     

    Finally, select your "Attribute.3" column (or whatever the column name ends up being for your categories: question, options, answer) and choose to Pivot the table by the "Value" column along with choosing not to aggregate.  See screenshot below:

     

    This should give you your desired result: