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rsbender
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6 years ago
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Very simple text column comparsion

I'm sorry but I am pretty new on Power BI. I have a database that has some column and I want to compare two of then, with text format. If they have the same string I want a column or measure to retu...
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    v-juanli-msft
    6 years ago

    Hi rsbender 

    Create a column

    Column = IF([column1]=[column2],"Equal","Different")

     

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    Maggie
    Community Support Team _ Maggie Li
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v-juanli-msft
Community Support
6 years ago

Hi rsbender 

Create a column

Column = IF([column1]=[column2],"Equal","Different")

 

Best Regards
Maggie
Community Support Team _ Maggie Li
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
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    rsbender
    Frequent Visitor
    6 years ago

    It's curios because text string columns were simply not appearing, but for some reasion its working now