Apologies in advance for my PQ ignorance as I'm fairly new to its use. I do, however, feel I've combed the internet in search for an answer to my question, have not found it, and, thus, have landed here
1) I "Power Query" a local unedited excel corporate-provided report and begin my edits.
2) I can remove the first two rows of "unneeded text" without issue.
3) The issue I'm having is figuring out a way to Concatenate (or another method) to get B4:D4 to display a date based on provided text values pre-populated in B3:D4.
In simpler terms: I'm trying to automate my query transformation steps so that upon "refresh", the editor leaves me with MM/YY in B4:D4 (the data I'm working with could include up to 10+ years of columns--whereas below I'm simply listing a simple example for this question).
A1:D6 table example within Power Query Editor
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What I hope to achieve (after this step, I would delete the first 3 rows and then make first row as my header row within editor).
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1) I "Power Query" a local unedited excel corporate-provided report and begin my edits.
2) I can remove the first two rows of "unneeded text" without issue.
3) The issue I'm having is figuring out a way to Concatenate (or another method) to get B4:D4 to display a date based on provided text values pre-populated in B3:D4.
In simpler terms: I'm trying to automate my query transformation steps so that upon "refresh", the editor leaves me with MM/YY in B4:D4 (the data I'm working with could include up to 10+ years of columns--whereas below I'm simply listing a simple example for this question).
A1:D6 table example within Power Query Editor
unneeded text | null | null | null |
unneeded text | null | null | null |
null | Y2015 | Y2015 | Y2015 |
null | Jan | Feb | Mar |
Billed Revenue | $1 | $1 | $1 |
Accrued Revenue | $2 | $2 | $2 |
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What I hope to achieve (after this step, I would delete the first 3 rows and then make first row as my header row within editor).
unneeded text | null | null | null |
unneeded text | null | null | null |
null | Y2015 | Y2015 | Y2015 |
null | 01/15 | 02/15 | 03/15 |
Billed Revenue | $1 | $1 | $1 |
Accrued Revenue | $2 | $2 | $2 |
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