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Mart1980
Helper I
Helper I

transform data

Hello all, 

 

I have made a connection with a tool, but the data is coming in as a long line of columns

Mart1980_0-1696531201126.png

similar to the example below but its hundreds of columns. Is there an easy way to transform this data so that I have a string column with all the strings listed, volume overall, month volume and then month and year column

Mart1980_1-1696531391299.png

similar to this. so its easy for me to work with and build visuals. 

 

thank you in advance

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vanessafvg
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Super User

 you should be able to do this in power query you just need to unpivot the the volume columns into one column, see example attached - im using year1 and year 2 in this example but thats irrelevant really, you can do this with any columns using UNPIVOT ans selecting the columns involved.

 

vanessafvg_0-1696541388297.png

vanessafvg_1-1696541402505.png

 

 





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vanessafvg
Super User
Super User

 you should be able to do this in power query you just need to unpivot the the volume columns into one column, see example attached - im using year1 and year 2 in this example but thats irrelevant really, you can do this with any columns using UNPIVOT ans selecting the columns involved.

 

vanessafvg_0-1696541388297.png

vanessafvg_1-1696541402505.png

 

 





If I took the time to answer your question and I came up with a solution, please mark my post as a solution and /or give kudos freely for the effort 🙂 Thank you!

Proud to be a Super User!




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