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[AleksandrMe]

Good day, 

I have problem to create nice columns of data I need. Due to complicated excel format of source files, I have following sample file structure: 

What I'm looking for is the getting rid of nul/numbers and repetitions fnaly two rows of thext one oposite to other to make connetions later. 

THnaks

Aleks 

[Jimmy801]

Hello @AleksandrMe 

what is the logic to connect the rows of text? What is your final output looking like?

BR

Jimmy

[AleksandrMe]

Hi Jimmi, 

There is one report using text data from second column. Now I need to connect this text data with "suggested actions" in the first column. This needs to be separate query and I will use connections. 

Numbers and emty rows need to go away as it came with the EXCEL - Cannot get rid of them without loosing text in the first column. 

[Jimmy801 · Accepted solution]

Hello @AleksandrMe 

check out this code. Uses Table.Group to group data by question number. The function applied combines text from column2 and column1

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMrdQ0lEKLE0tLsnMz1OK1YlWKkmtKFFIBIqCeSEgXhIKLxnGM7dE0qsA5MGVOKJowMaLBQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t, Column2 = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}, {"Column2", type text}}),
    #"Replaced Value" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Changed Type","",null,Replacer.ReplaceValue,{"Column1", "Column2"}),
    GroupNumbers = Table.Group
    (
        #"Replaced Value",
        {"Column1"},
        {
            {
                "AllRows",
                each Text.Combine(_[Column2], " ") & " - " & Text.Combine(List.Skip(_[Column1],1)," ")
            }
        },
        GroupKind.Local,
        (group,current)=> try if Value.Is(Number.From(current[Column1]),type number) then 1 else 0 otherwise 0
    )
in
    GroupNumbers

Copy paste this code to the advanced editor in a new blank query to see how the solution works.

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Jimmy

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