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6 years ago
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Power Query to shape excel to a single table

Hi,   I'm trying to use power query to extract data from an excel form. Here's an example of the source that I have:   Month January Cars Qty Blue 1 Green 2 Yellow 3 ...
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    Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Hey,

     

    I was able to solve it using the code below.

     

     

    let
        Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Data"]}[Content],
        #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}, {"Column2", type any}}),
        #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type", each ([Column1] <> null and [Column1] <> "Month")),
        #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Filtered Rows", "Custom", each if [Column2] = null then [Column1] else null),
        #"Filled Down" = Table.FillDown(#"Added Custom",{"Custom"}),
        #"Filtered Rows1" = Table.SelectRows(#"Filled Down", each ([Column2] <> null)),
        #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Filtered Rows1",{{"Custom", "Item"}, {"Column1", "Color"}, {"Column2", "Qty"}}),
        #"Reordered Columns" = Table.ReorderColumns(#"Renamed Columns",{"Color", "Item", "Qty"}),
        #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Reordered Columns",{{"Qty", type number}, {"Item", type text}})
    in
        #"Changed Type1"

     

     

    The result I get from it is the following

     

     

    I hope it helps.