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YYHoe
Jul 06, 2022Copper Contributor
Sorting out and counting text strings in a table
I have attached a table extracted from a power query. I want to turn it (B2:H21) into a first column listing down unique strings in alphabetical order (ignoring nul cells) and a second column showin...
- Jul 06, 2022
YYHoe That would involve unpivotting the data, clean-up a bit and then group (and count) and sort. An example is included in the attached file. I couldn't continue with your query as it connect to an source that was not in the workbook. But I created a new (stand-alone) table from the one in Sheet1 and connected PQ to that one. The end result is in sheet PQ.
Riny_van_Eekelen
Jul 06, 2022Platinum Contributor
YYHoe That would involve unpivotting the data, clean-up a bit and then group (and count) and sort. An example is included in the attached file. I couldn't continue with your query as it connect to an source that was not in the workbook. But I created a new (stand-alone) table from the one in Sheet1 and connected PQ to that one. The end result is in sheet PQ.
YYHoe
Jul 06, 2022Copper Contributor
Thank you very much, Riny. Spot on!!!