one column blank number and text. i need shift number and text to new columns

[Anonymous]

hi experts,

i am still learning and I am a newbie. please help to support me on how can we do this.

i have data in one column 1 with values blank, number and text. I need to shift the number to column 2 and text to column 3. please advise on how can I do this in Power Query Editor.

thank you for your support.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous 

Or you may create a conditional column.

1. Duplicate the column

2. Change the copied column data type to numbers

3. Replace Errors to null

4. Create a conditional column

Paul Zheng _ Community Support Team
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[HotChilli]

You could duplicate the column (call it DupColumn) then change the type of the new column to Whole number.  This will throw an error on the values that are text.  We can use this info to create 2 new columns. 

Using 'Add Column'->Custom column     from the menu.

1st New Column (the numbers) :

try [DupColumn] otherwise null

2nd New Column (the text):

let x = try [DupColumn]
in
    if x[HasError] then [Column1] else ""

Column1 is the name of your original column, just edit that part.

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From there you can tidy up the datatypes, blanks and nulls to get the data in a form you want.

Good luck