Category: POWER QUERY

Sequencing using advanced filters

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Assume a three column database of Article Number, Size and Quantity.  The size column may have five sizes – Small, Medium, Large, XL and XXL.  Not all sizes will be available for every article number.  The task is to create a three column database in another worksheet, which shows only those article numbers having all […]

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Dynamically extract unique values with multiple conditions

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Assume there are two columns with data repeated in all both columns.  One may wan to extract the unique text values from a specific column based on conditions specified by end-user. Depending upon the version of MS Excel which you are using, there could be two ways to solve this problem Solution for MS Excel 2010 and higher versions […]

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Dynamically extract unique values with no conditions

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Given a single column with duplicates appearing, one may want to dynamically extract unique values to another range. Depending upon the version of MS Excel which you are using, there could be two ways to solve this problem Solution for MS Excel 2010 and higher versions If you are using the Power Query add-in, then a […]

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LOOKUP where search string appears multiple times

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In a list with multiple occurrences, the VLOOKUP() function in Excel will only return the first occurrence of the string being searched. Depending upon the version of MS Excel which you are using, there could be two ways to solve this problem Solution for MS Excel 2010 and higher versions If you are using the […]

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