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passants
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New Table with OR Logic from Multiple Columns

Hello, I would like to make a new table in the Power Query step based on OR logic referencing multiple columns from the original table, and have not been able to figure out how to do so.   For exa...
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    4 years ago

    I solved my own question after playing around with it for awhile:

     

    In PowerQuery, I created the new table as a copy of the old table. Then, I filtered the column Major 1 to =A to generate the code for the step as follows:

     

    = Table.SelectRows(#"Added Conditional Column", each ([Major 1] = "A"))

     

    Then in the Advanced Editor, changed it to the following:

     

    = Table.SelectRows(#"Added Conditional Column", each [Major 1] = "A" or [Major 2] = "A")

     

    which left me with a table of the rows I needed.