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MojoGene
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6 years ago
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Replace value and move to different column?

M code newbie question: I am trying to move the values in the "Country/Region" column into into the "Province/State" column and replace the moved value in Country/Region with a region name, e.g., "Eu...
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    Greg_Deckler
    6 years ago

    MojoGene 

     

    Right, there is no magic bullet for that. What I did was take the values in your Country/Region table and copied them. I pasted these into a new Enter Data query called Table. I then added a column for Region and put values in there for the region. Now, I got lazy and because I am from the US my geography skills suck so there are a lot of Europe's in there. Just click the gear icon next to the Source step and correct all that to what you want. It's manual, but you only have to do it once.

     

    Now, I then added a Merge Queries step to the COVID-19 table that merges this new Table into the COVID-19 table so that you now have the desired Region column. Updated PBIX is attached.

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MojoGene
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6 years ago

Greg:

Thanks once again. I was working on my own solution, but it was very inelegant compared to yours.

I'm on the right track now. 

Thanks again.

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Greg_Deckler
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6 years ago

MojoGene - Great! Let me know if you need anything else. It's a snowy Saturday here so I'm just chilling out and answering forum questions. There is zero to do here because of all this #@!$#!# COVID-19 @#$#@#@ shutting absolutely everything down here in the US.