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calhounco
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8 years ago

Removing a Row based on all rows being blank except in the first column.

I query from a file folder that includes multiple files (for this example those files are TEST3 & TEST4 shown in Column A) and all those files have the same type information with the same column headers.  The only problem I have is when I run a query it pulls all the blank rows.  I tried removing blank rows, but since my Column A is not blank it will not remove them. Is there a code I can place in the Advanced Editor on the Query Editor to remove rows that are completely blank even when Column A shows up with the title of the file?

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  • jthomson's avatar
    jthomson
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    8 years ago

    You can do this in query editor - I'd make sure that all of the blank data is formatting as nulls, then make a custom column that's something like

     

    columntogetridoftheblanks = if column1 = null and column2 = null and ...(repeat for all your columns) then "delete" else null

     

    You can then filter out anything that says delete in the new column. Probably a more efficient way to do this though

    • calhounco's avatar
      calhounco
      New Member
      8 years ago

      Sounds like something that would work. I just do not know much about the certain code that would be required for this action. Any help would be good.  Thank you.

  • mouse_art's avatar
    mouse_art
    Regular Visitor
    1 year ago

    This is an old post, but still worth recording the best solution I've seen so far:

    #"Removed Blank Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Previous step", each not List.IsEmpty(List.RemoveMatchingItems(List.Range(Record.FieldValues(_),1,Table.ColumnCount(#"Previous step")-1), {"", null})))

    The advantage is that you don't need to know how many columns you have.