Merge two field with one field at the end of the new field

[STIBBS_807]

I have two fields that I wish to merge into one.  However I would like the second field to appear at a end to the first field.  The issue is the first field is variable in length.  So here is my data.

Item	Records
1. Item	221/259
2. Item Brown	218/259
3. Item Red	7/8
4. Item No colour	2/4
5. Item White	8/24

I would like it to appear like this.

How do I make the lengh of the item field a standard size (longer) so that the merge appends to the end of the Item field?   So the opposite of trimming the field I want to add spaces at the end of the Item Field.

[STIBBS_807]

I replaced the spaces with a period and a space to make it look like a title page.

[wdx223_Daniel]

[Anonymous]

try use the function

Text.PadEnd(text as nullable text, count as number, optional character as nullable text) as nullable text

[tackytechtom · Accepted solution]

Hi @STIBBS_807 ,

Here is my solution, which only displays properly in i.e. notepad:

And this is how it looks like in Power Query:

Here the code in Power Query M that you can paste into the advanced editor (if you do not know, how to exactly do this, please check out this quick walkthrough)

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WUjDUU/AsSc1V0lEyMjLUNzK1VIrVAQobQYQVnIryy/NAkoYWCEljqGRQagpQylzfAiJsAhX2y1dIzs/JLy0C6dM3gUiaQiXDMzJLUoESQOOAMrEA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Item = _t, Records = _t]),
    #"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(Source, "ItemColumnLength", each Text.Length([Item])),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Added Custom1",{{"ItemColumnLength", Int64.Type}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each [Item] & "  " & Text.Repeat(" ", (List.Max(#"Changed Type"[ItemColumnLength] ) -[ItemColumnLength]  )) & [Records]),
    #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"ItemColumnLength"})
in
    #"Removed Columns"

Does this solve your issue? 🙂

/Tom
https://www.tackytech.blog/
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[edhans]

I like @tackytechtom solution. Just be aware it works well with a mono-spaced font like Courier, but may not work in a font like Arial that has kerning.