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Move cell to another Column
- 4 years ago
Hi Centaur. Danie's solution is definitely more robust. But it requires a little more advanced Power Query knowledge. His code doesn't go in the Custom Column box. It goes in the Advanced Editor, which you can get to by clicking View in the ribbon, then Advanced Editor.
You will want to add his code near the bottom, just above the line that says "in". And where it says "PreviousStepName", you will want to replace that with the name of the step that previously on the line just above the "in". You'll also need to adjust the name of the step in the line below the "in" to NewStep.So, for example, if your code in the advanced editor looked like this previously:
let Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table6"]}[Content], #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Vendor", type text}, {"Invoice Date", type any}}) in #"Changed Type"then you would change it to something like this:
let Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table6"]}[Content], #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Vendor", type text}, {"Invoice date", type any}}), NewStep=Table.FromRecords(Table.TransformRows(#"Changed Type",each if [Invoice date] is text then _&[Vendor=[Invoice date],Invoice date=null] else _)) in NewStepAlso make sure that new line doesn't have a comma at the end. But the line that was previously just above the "in" does have a comma.
You could go to Add Column > Conditional Column, and create the logic as seen in the screenshot below. Then, Right click > Remove the original vendor column, then rename the new "Vendor New" column to the original "Vendor".
Or, equivalently, you could create a Custom Column with this code:
if [Invoice Date] = "Local Account" then [Invoice Date]
else if [Invoice Date] = "Depository Account" then [Invoice Date]
else if [Invoice Date] = "Plus Liquidity Reserve" then [Invoice Date]
else [Vendor]
-Steve
- Centaur4 years agoHelper V
Steve, after adding the conditional column and moving the fields that have the text in Invoice Date they have successfully moved from Invoice Date column to the VEndor column however the text in quotes still resides in the Invoice Date column. How do I move the text in quotes out of the Invoice Date column as well? Should I make another condtional column?
- SteveHailey4 years agoSolution Specialist
To move the text in quotes out, I would use "Replace Values". So right click the Invoice Date column, and choose Replace Values.
In the Replace Values dialog box, in the "Value To Find" box, enter "Local Account" (but without the quotes!). And leave the "Replace With" box blank.
Then repeat for other two items.
- Centaur4 years agoHelper V
HI Steve, I think I need to account for misspellings. Daniel's solution seems to be a workaround for this but not sure how to implement it.