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slohombre
Brass Contributor
May 21, 2020

Power Query Column Transformation

Hi, all. I am struggling to find a way to remove "50/50 Romaine" from the "Work Date" column and move that to another column (that I will label "Commodity"). Also - this data has several blocks of da...
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SergeiBaklan
Diamond Contributor
May 21, 2020

slohombre 

For such sample - duplicate the column and apply date format

We have errors where are texts. Now let add Commodity column using formula as

    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(
        #"Changed Type",
        "Commodity",
        each
            try
                if [#"Work Date - Copy"] = null
                then "!NULL!"
                else null
            otherwise [#"Work Date"]
    ),

Now fill it down, replace back !NULL! on null and remove temporary column

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    slohombre
    Brass Contributor
    May 21, 2020

    SergeiBaklan  Thank you! I duplicated the column and did get the errors where the text was formerly located. I am having trouble with the next step, I assume I use the "Custom Column"  button for the formula. Could I get more basic instruction from you on the exact formula to put into the formula bar? Thanks for the help. 

     

     

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      SergeiBaklan
      Diamond Contributor
      May 21, 2020

      slohombre 

      Sorry, I copy/pasted that from Advanced Editor since corrected formula here. If in Add Custom Column window it looks like

      You may not care about formatting here and type everything in one string.

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