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90 percent of all data I analyze is a combination of dollar-formatted data ALONG WITH percentage data. After cleaning data and properly categorizing it as either currency or percentage, how do I keep the unpivot process from breaking data formats. I started out using tableau add-in to unpivot columns, but it is frustrating to keep losing formats, or to have dollar and percentage amts mixed together.
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normally I might would unpivot beginning at the "cash" column but the last 3 columns are percentage ratios formatting those numbers becomes a pain when they are mixed.
you can't have mixed formatting in a column so maybe unpivot twice - first on the numerical data and second on the percentage data
can you unpivot them separately from the same sheet, or do you need to copy/paste the percentage columns along with primary shared column to another excel sheet and do it there, effectively creating 2 tables?
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