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Michael Colwell
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Feb 14, 2018
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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 w...
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Michael Colwell
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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.

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    Michael Colwell
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 16, 2018

    Hi Sergi,

    Thanks for the link, not sure how I missed that..!!

    Have installed and will try to work through combining the column's as per my original post.

     

    Regards.

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      Detlef_Lewin
      Silver Contributor
      Feb 16, 2018

      Michael,

       

      first change the list into an Excel Table (CTRL-T) and query from table.

      And then change the preliminary code to:

      let
    Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content],
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Base Code", type text}, {"Variant", type text}}),
    #"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.ExpandListColumn(Table.TransformColumns(#"Changed Type", {{"Variant", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(",", QuoteStyle.Csv), let itemType = (type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true] in type {itemType}}}), "Variant"),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter",{{"Variant", Int64.Type}}),
    #"Merged Columns" = Table.CombineColumns(Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Changed Type1", {{"Variant", type text}}, "de-DE"),{"Base Code", "Variant"},Combiner.CombineTextByDelimiter("-", QuoteStyle.None),"Combined")
in
    #"Merged Columns"
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        Michael Colwell
        Copper Contributor
        Feb 19, 2018

        Hi Detlef,

        Thank you for the reply. I "attempted" to do as you outlined but ran into an error.

        I'm just not that familiar with Excel, especially the table query and data dunctions etc.

        I'll work away at this, but wanted to than you for your time and knowledge, it was much appreciated.

        It will takle me a while as I'm coming from a limited Excel background and don't want to use up your time with fundamental questions that I need to go away and learn myself.

         

        Thanks & Regards,

        Michael.

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