Power Query sum with exceptions

[MichaelK27]

Hi,

I have data in a row in this kind of format:

Name1, amount, name2, amount, name3, amount, name4, amount, name5, amount

Now I want to add a custom column where the output is the sum of the totale amount in the row. BUT if any of the names is e.g. School, I don't want to add this to my sum. However, in every row it can be in another place.

Is there a solution for this?

[v-stephen-msft]

Hi @MichaelK27 ,

It is recommended that you duplicate them, get each separate name and amount column, and append them together.

Append queries - Power Query | Microsoft Learn

Best Regards,

Stephen Tao

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[MichaelK27]

Hi @Luis98 ,

I will have a static table with this information. And the total amount of columns used for this will be 9x the name (type of cost) and 9x the cost. Does this answer your question?

[Luis98]

Hi @MichaelK27 

Will you have always these number of columns? Or the number of columns could be dinamic?