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Anonymous
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Combining text across columns

Thank you in advance for your help. If I have 2 columns of data (both text), 20 rows, and I want to move column 2 row 11-20 to column 1 row 11-20, (replacing what currentely exists in column 1 row 11-20) how would I do that? Thank you!

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Anonymous
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Hi,

 

You can easily achieve this by adding an Index Column and then adding a New Conditional Column. 

 

Using the code below you will get the following result.

 

Annotation 2019-11-22 181653.png

 

let
    Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Data"]}[Content],
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column 1", type text}, {"Column 2", type text}}),
    #"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"Changed Type", "Index", 1, 1),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Index", "Solution", each if [Index]<11 then [Column 1] else [Column 2]),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Added Custom",{{"Solution", type text}}),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Changed Type1",{"Index"})
in
    #"Removed Columns"

 

Hope it helps.

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Anonymous
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Hi,

 

You can easily achieve this by adding an Index Column and then adding a New Conditional Column. 

 

Using the code below you will get the following result.

 

Annotation 2019-11-22 181653.png

 

let
    Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Data"]}[Content],
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column 1", type text}, {"Column 2", type text}}),
    #"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"Changed Type", "Index", 1, 1),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Index", "Solution", each if [Index]<11 then [Column 1] else [Column 2]),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Added Custom",{{"Solution", type text}}),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Changed Type1",{"Index"})
in
    #"Removed Columns"

 

Hope it helps.

Anonymous
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Got it! Thank you so much! I appreciate it.

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