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TestssonNow
2 years agoNew Member
Translate index match in Excel Power Query
Hi! It is too heavy for Excel to execute the function =index(a:a, match(true, exact(b2, c:c), 0)) for +800 rows. I thus want to do this via Power Query in Excel instead (I loaded the data using g...
m_dekorte
2 years agoResident Rockstar
Hi TestssonNow
Select Merge on the ribbon, merge with the itself
That yields a nested table as result, which can be expanded, with the sideward arrows
Select Column1, from the available fields
TestssonNow
2 years agoNew Member
Thank you for the explanation, much appreciated! I have a dataset with +800k rows and that seemed to be too much with the expansion solution (i.e. Power Equery says it ran out of memory and doesnt complete the process). Is there an m code / Power Query Custom column code I could use to solve this?