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Michael Colwell
Copper Contributor
Feb 14, 2018

Combining text from two column's and creating a new list

Hi, hoping someone can help.

Please see the table below.

I'm trying to combine the "Base Code" and "Variant" column to produce the "Combined" column result. Hope that makes sense.

Basically I want to take the first code in the "Base Code" list and then combine that with the values in the "Variant" column separated by the ',' delimiter (and also add a '-').

Any advice, pointers etc would be much appreciated.

 

Regards,

Michael.

 

 

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    • Michael Colwell's avatar
      Michael Colwell
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 15, 2018

      Hi Detlef,

       

      Am not familiar with Power Query.

      I've just Googled it and will need to look into it a bit further before I decide what to do, but thanks fo the advice.

       

      Regards,

      Michael.

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        Michael Colwell
        Copper Contributor
        Feb 15, 2018

        Hi Detlef,

         

        Can't install Power Query as it requires the 64 bit Excel version, I'm reatricted to the 32bit version.

        Thanks for the suggestion.

        Any other ideas as to how I might achieve my column extraction & combining !!

        Am wondering if I need to look into some sort of VB option.

        Regarsds.