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diegoadum
Helper I
Helper I

use a cell value to fill a column

Hi there! I'm trying to fill up a column with the Country information from where the info belong to. The country name is located in a particular Excel cell. Is there a way to do that?

 

Many thanks in advance!

 

PS: The country is also part of the name of each excel file, so that could work also if there is a way to read it into power bi.

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diegoadum
Helper I
Helper I

Well, I did some movements and got what I was looking for. Basically, I load a copy of the same excel file and using the query editor, I took off all the columns but the one that have the country name on one of the cells. Them, I remove the previous rows (3) and them I used the function which keep the upper rows. At this point the only one I need if the first row, which has the Country name. Them I append the 2 tables. The result at this point looks like a new column added to the previous ones but the new column only have data in the first row, which is the country. Using the fill up function I populated the country name on all the rows and as the last step I have to remove the first row in this view. The final result, I got a new column with the country name for each Excel file I loaded. 

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diegoadum
Helper I
Helper I

Well, I did some movements and got what I was looking for. Basically, I load a copy of the same excel file and using the query editor, I took off all the columns but the one that have the country name on one of the cells. Them, I remove the previous rows (3) and them I used the function which keep the upper rows. At this point the only one I need if the first row, which has the Country name. Them I append the 2 tables. The result at this point looks like a new column added to the previous ones but the new column only have data in the first row, which is the country. Using the fill up function I populated the country name on all the rows and as the last step I have to remove the first row in this view. The final result, I got a new column with the country name for each Excel file I loaded. 

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