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Anonymous
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10 years ago
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Remove old duplicates

We have a table in Excel with CRM data. Each CRM opportunity appears multiple times. Meaning if an opportunity moves through the different CRM stages for each stage a row will be created. The CRM sta...
  • konstantinos's avatar
    konstantinos
    10 years ago

    Anonymous It is almost the same thing. The UI is a bit diffrent.

     

    In PowerBI Desktop go to  "Edit Queries" 

     

     

    Select the table/query taht you import from excel -> Select the ID column only and sort ( doesn't matter asc or desc) ->

    Select the Sales Stage column now & sort z-a ( the biggest on top )

    Notice the small numbers for the order of sorting in the column?

     

     

    now the tricky part

     Click the formula icon (fx) in the bar. This will create a new step 'Custom" and also in the bar will be the name of the previous step     = #"Sorted Rows"

     

     

    Now after equal sign wirite =Table.Buffer( #"Sorted Rows")

    SO just write the formula and include the text already there - previous step.

     

     

     

    You already know how to remove duplicates so that is.

     

    Hope it works

     

     

     

konstantinos's avatar
konstantinos
Memorable Member
10 years ago

Anonymous It is almost the same thing. The UI is a bit diffrent.

 

In PowerBI Desktop go to  "Edit Queries" 

 

 

Select the table/query taht you import from excel -> Select the ID column only and sort ( doesn't matter asc or desc) ->

Select the Sales Stage column now & sort z-a ( the biggest on top )

Notice the small numbers for the order of sorting in the column?

 

 

now the tricky part

 Click the formula icon (fx) in the bar. This will create a new step 'Custom" and also in the bar will be the name of the previous step     = #"Sorted Rows"

 

 

Now after equal sign wirite =Table.Buffer( #"Sorted Rows")

SO just write the formula and include the text already there - previous step.

 

 

 

You already know how to remove duplicates so that is.

 

Hope it works

 

 

 

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Emmaxson
Advocate I
9 years ago

Awesome! It did work for me.  konstantinos Where did you learn that from? I need to up my game too.