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Quenril
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Resolver I

Remove duplicate text values across multiple columns

Hello!

 

New Power BI user here and struggling a bit with cleaning my data... I suspect this may be an easy one for you all, so please help if you can..?

 

I have attached a screenshot of my data table (each letter represents a Consultant name). I need to de-duplicate the names in the table so that the name in the Lead Consultant column doesn't recur in Attendee columns 1-3.  

Current datasetCurrent dataset

 

So my ideal solution would look like this:

Dataset solutionDataset solution

 Thank you so much!

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Anonymous
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@QuenrilYou can go into the Query Editor and create 3 new Consultant Attendees conditional columns. I've shown one below as an example. Once all the new Consultant Attendees columns have been created, you can remove the 3 original ones and rename the new ones to what they should be.

bchager6_0-1703875390080.png

 

bchager6_1-1703875428541.png

 

Final result:

bchager6_2-1703875503310.png

 

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Quenril
Resolver I
Resolver I

@Anonymous and @PijushRoy thank you both so much. I did consider conditinoal columns but it felt like I was simply duplicating data so I thought I must be missing something. Thank you for confirming that this is the best approach 😁

Thanks @Quenril 
After posting, saw @Anonymous already posted the same solution.

Pijush




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Anonymous
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@Quenril  You're welcome

PijushRoy
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Hi @Quenril 

Please create  conditional column, then delete  original column

PijushRoy_0-1703875637539.png

 

If solved your requirement, please mark this answer as SOLUTION.
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Pijush




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Anonymous
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@QuenrilYou can go into the Query Editor and create 3 new Consultant Attendees conditional columns. I've shown one below as an example. Once all the new Consultant Attendees columns have been created, you can remove the 3 original ones and rename the new ones to what they should be.

bchager6_0-1703875390080.png

 

bchager6_1-1703875428541.png

 

Final result:

bchager6_2-1703875503310.png

 

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