Category: Power Query

My last blog post was interesting in that I got a few emails about it.  Both Imke Feldman and Bill Szysz sent me better methods, and a blog commenter asked for a slightly different version.  For this post, I’m going

I recently received a comment on one of my blog posts asking how to separate values and text, especially when there is no common delimiter such as a space separating them.  This is a bit of an interesting one, as

This past weekend I attended SQL Saturday in Portland, OR.  While I was there, I attended Reza Rad’s session on Advanced Data Transformations with Power Query.  During that session, Reza showed a cool trick to merge data based on two

Some more savvy Excel users know that you can break text onto multiple lines in a cell by pressing Alt+Enter mid entry.  Today’s post explores how we can split by line breaks in order to break these types of cell

The other day as I was working through a model, I once again tripped upon the fact that Power Query’s Text.Trim function doesn’t clean whitespace inside the text string, only at the ends.  For those who are used to Excel’s

I ran into an interesting wrinkle in a model I’m building, where I need to allocate units based on dates.  The idea here is to allow a user to the number of units to allocate, the start date and the

There was a really cool new feature added in the latest Power Query update:  The ability to split Power Queries.  This is something that has always been possible by editing the M code manually, but this makes it super simple.