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Creating a new column with a cell value
Hi guys,
I want to create a column with a specific cell value which is located in the headline of the table, is there any way to do this? the picture below is an example of what I am trying to do.
I have tried this but it give me an error
= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each {2}[Column3])Thank you for your help in advance
Hi Hamidrezaei,
There are a couple ways to do this. The "easy" but brute force way is just to add a custom column to the table/query and enter the date. Then, just trim out the rows you don't need.
A more "system" type approach would be to promote headers, making that date a column header, then unpivot that column. Then, you would have to remove rows and promote headers and then rename the date to whatever the name is:
Initial Promoted Headers
Unpivot
Remove Rows, Promote Headers, Rename Date Field
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Hi Hamidrezaei,
There are a couple ways to do this. The "easy" but brute force way is just to add a custom column to the table/query and enter the date. Then, just trim out the rows you don't need.
A more "system" type approach would be to promote headers, making that date a column header, then unpivot that column. Then, you would have to remove rows and promote headers and then rename the date to whatever the name is:
Initial Promoted Headers
Unpivot
Remove Rows, Promote Headers, Rename Date Field
