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Sorting on Grouped Column
This took me a few minutes now that I have some sample data to work with. It brute forces it (and by no means do I recommend this) but it maintains the column headers etc that you currently have:
1) Keep Year as a whole number
2)Create a custom column in the List table with the following code. This will make bins for you:
if [Year] <= 5 then "<5" else if [Year] >5 and [Year] <=10 then "6-10" else if [Year] >10 and [Year] <= 15 then "11-15" else if [Year] >15 and [Year] <=20 then "16-20" else "21-25"
3) Home Tab > Merge Queries
4) Merge List table and Sort Range Table using Bin in the List table, and Range in the Sort Range Table.
5) Expand table and select Sort Order:
6) close and apply
7) Sort by column now that you have the sort order in the table.
In Power Query, the Group year range is unavailable and the Merge function is grey out in Transformation menu. Thus, it is impossible to do unless I have missunderstand it.
This took me a few minutes now that I have some sample data to work with. It brute forces it (and by no means do I recommend this) but it maintains the column headers etc that you currently have:
1) Keep Year as a whole number
2)Create a custom column in the List table with the following code. This will make bins for you:
if [Year] <= 5 then "<5" else if [Year] >5 and [Year] <=10 then "6-10" else if [Year] >10 and [Year] <= 15 then "11-15" else if [Year] >15 and [Year] <=20 then "16-20" else "21-25"
3) Home Tab > Merge Queries
4) Merge List table and Sort Range Table using Bin in the List table, and Range in the Sort Range Table.
5) Expand table and select Sort Order:
6) close and apply
7) Sort by column now that you have the sort order in the table.
Yup, this works.
Thanks for letting me learn something new now.