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Queries - Duplicate Columns After Merging
Hi RodgerB ,
Need more information, could it be something like "merge queries" and "merge queries as new"?
Best Regards,
Jay
Community Support Team _ Jay Wang
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No problem. So, I will duplicate a column in Query Editor/PowerQuery to do things such as extract text from the column, change the date to a year value, or even multiply a column by a value. When the step is added, the new column will be created, but the column it was created from is still there. Other times, when I do this, the new column is created, and the old column is replaced with the new transformation.
It seems very random, so when I'm showing this to someone, I get this question a lot. "Why is your column gone, but mine is still here?" I hope this better explains what I mean. Thanks again!