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Hi Team,
I have a dataset whose sample is below:
Now i want to Promote the headers of first two rows from first row and Promote the headers of rest rows from 2nd row.
I have almost 100 rows like this in the original dataset so its difficult to update manually.
Please Advise.
Thanks
Amit
Solved! Go to Solution.
Solution file upoaded to - https://1drv.ms/x/s!Akd5y6ruJhvhuSx85gpq2K8FOskP?e=eBqPq8
You can incorporate following M codes
For case 1
let
Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content],
#"Transposed Table" = Table.Transpose(Source),
#"Merged Columns" = Table.CombineColumns(#"Transposed Table",{"Column1", "Column2"},Combiner.CombineTextByDelimiter("", QuoteStyle.None),"Merged"),
#"Transposed Table1" = Table.Transpose(#"Merged Columns"),
#"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(#"Transposed Table1", [PromoteAllScalars=true])
in
#"Promoted Headers"
For Case 2
let
Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table2"]}[Content],
#"Demoted Headers" = Table.DemoteHeaders(Source),
#"Transposed Table" = Table.Transpose(#"Demoted Headers"),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Transposed Table", "Custom", each (if Text.Contains([Column1],"Column") or Text.Contains([Column1],"_") then "" else [Column1])&(if [Column2]=null then "" else [Column2])),
#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Column1", "Column2"}),
#"Reordered Columns" = Table.ReorderColumns(#"Removed Columns",{List.Last(Table.ColumnNames(#"Removed Columns"))}&List.RemoveLastN(Table.ColumnNames(#"Removed Columns"),1) ),
#"Transposed Table1" = Table.Transpose(#"Reordered Columns"),
#"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(#"Transposed Table1", [PromoteAllScalars=true])
in
#"Promoted Headers"
I have one more situation where i already have header for the first 2 rows and rest of rows has the header in the first row.
Please advise for this one as well.
Thanks
Solution file upoaded to - https://1drv.ms/x/s!Akd5y6ruJhvhuSx85gpq2K8FOskP?e=eBqPq8
You can incorporate following M codes
For case 1
let
Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content],
#"Transposed Table" = Table.Transpose(Source),
#"Merged Columns" = Table.CombineColumns(#"Transposed Table",{"Column1", "Column2"},Combiner.CombineTextByDelimiter("", QuoteStyle.None),"Merged"),
#"Transposed Table1" = Table.Transpose(#"Merged Columns"),
#"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(#"Transposed Table1", [PromoteAllScalars=true])
in
#"Promoted Headers"
For Case 2
let
Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table2"]}[Content],
#"Demoted Headers" = Table.DemoteHeaders(Source),
#"Transposed Table" = Table.Transpose(#"Demoted Headers"),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Transposed Table", "Custom", each (if Text.Contains([Column1],"Column") or Text.Contains([Column1],"_") then "" else [Column1])&(if [Column2]=null then "" else [Column2])),
#"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Added Custom",{"Column1", "Column2"}),
#"Reordered Columns" = Table.ReorderColumns(#"Removed Columns",{List.Last(Table.ColumnNames(#"Removed Columns"))}&List.RemoveLastN(Table.ColumnNames(#"Removed Columns"),1) ),
#"Transposed Table1" = Table.Transpose(#"Reordered Columns"),
#"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(#"Transposed Table1", [PromoteAllScalars=true])
in
#"Promoted Headers"
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