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HxH
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7 years ago
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Creating "folders" for power query steps

Hi everyone,  I'm currently doing a lot of data cleaning in Power Query. I have a column where the operators of my company manually input data and therefore I have to clean it. Is there a way to put...
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    ImkeF
    7 years ago

    Hi

    if you're actually replacing the full strings, then its super easy with a translattion table. Just keep your translations in that table and use 1 or 2 query steps to do all replacements in one go.

     

    You can also try the fuzzy-merge (see attached file) - maybe that works for you. That just requires a list of your desired target values - so no need even to type in all translations manually.

     

    If you need to replace sub-strings, please come back.