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Anonymous
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7 years ago
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Filter out row using Table.SelectRows and conditional if/and

Hi all,  I need to drop a row from my table in power query (Excel). I presume I need to filter that row out. The trouble is that other rows also have than same value and I dont want to filter out th...
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    Mariusz
    7 years ago

    Hi Anonymous 

     

    You can filter to Bob and 26 and add not like below.

     

    = Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type", each not ([Indicator] = "bob" and [Total] = 26))
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    Mariusz
    7 years ago

    Hi Anonymous 

     

    You can try the below.

     

    = Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type", 
        each not ( 
                ( [Indicator] = "bob" and [Total] = 26 ) 
             or ( [Indicator] = "jane" and [Total] = 21 )
             or ( [Indicator] = "jon" and [Total] = 15 )
        ) 
    )

     

    Best Regards,
    Mariusz

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    Mariusz Repczynski

     

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Mariusz
Community Champion
7 years ago

Hi Anonymous 

 

You can filter to Bob and 26 and add not like below.

 

= Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type", each not ([Indicator] = "bob" and [Total] = 26))
Best Regards,
Mariusz

If this post helps, then please consider Accepting it as the solution.

Please feel free to connect with me.
Mariusz Repczynski

 

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Yondice
Advocate I
3 years ago

This solved my problem.

Side lesson learned: if you're renaming columns, don't use parentheses or brackets in the new name. It will screw with subsequent transformation steps.