Hi,
I'm often encountering the same problem when getting my data ready. I'll put a small example hereunder.
We have a table which looks like this:
Date - CoworkerA - CoworkerB - CoworkerC - ... - CoworkerX
1-1-2018 - 8 - 8 - 4 - ... - 6
2-1-2018 - 8 - 8 - 2 - ... - 6
3-1-2018 - 8 - 8 - 4 - ... - 3
...
31-1-2018 - 8 - 8 - 1 - ... - 6
The "-" indicated a new column. The values are "hours worked"
I have no idea how to distribute this data into a more workable table like:
Date - CoworkerName - Hours worked
1-1-2018 - A - 8
1-1-2018 - B - 8
1-1-2018 - C - 4
2-1-2018 - A - 8
2-1-2018 - B - 8
2-1-2018 - C - 2
...
31-1-2018 - A - 8
31-1-2018 - B - 8
31-1-2018 - C - 1
Hopefully you guys have a solution or suggestion how I am to tackle these kinds of problems in the future. If there is a solution in Excel, that would also be fine. Because i mostly input data from Excel.
Solved! Go to Solution.
This is a good test case for using 'Unpivot Columns' in the Power Query Editor.
Select all the 'Coworker ...' columns first, then choose 'Unpivot' on the Transform menu
Just to make clear that I do know how to distribute the table manually. But with enourmous tables this would take way to much time.
This is a good test case for using 'Unpivot Columns' in the Power Query Editor.
Select all the 'Coworker ...' columns first, then choose 'Unpivot' on the Transform menu
Thanks! Will try this.
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