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kevinEGE
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Table with two list

Good afternoon!

 

I have a table with two columns in list format, one for contacts and the other for files. I want to expand both columns to see the data. How can I do this? If I use the built-in Power Query tool to expand them, it will create one row for each contact with a file. Since it's possible to have more than one contact and file (up to 3 or 4 contacts and/or files), this would create a very large table.

 

Thank you so much!

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amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@kevinEGE , create a new column

using two list columns

Zip=

let

_break = List.Zip( {[COlumn1], [COlumn2]} ),
_Trans = List.Transform(_break, each Record.FromList(_, {"Subject", "Marks"}))
in
_Trans

 

and then expand record

 

Table.ExpandListColumn(#"Added Custom", "Zip")

 

next step

Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Expanded Zip", "Zip", {"Subject", "Marks"}, {"Zip.Subject", "Zip.Marks"})

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