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Gangula
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Reorder columns based on column headers

I have created a function which renames my columns based on the criteria I need with numbers in all the column headers.

So I need to order these columns based on these numbers in ascending order. See the below code where I manually ordered the columns.

 

Table.ReorderColumns(RemoveColumns,{"Viewfolder 1", "Viewfolder 2", "View 2", "Viewfolder 3", "View 3"})

This is a sample case with just 5 columns, but I have excel files with 100's of columns to order.

I prefer it if "viewfolder" is placed before "view", but it's not mandatory. Is there any way to achieve this using "M"

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Anonymous
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@Gangula,

This post should have the solution you are looking for. 

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jhauff77060
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Advocate II

You should be able to add a new step in Power Query as follows:

Home > Choose Columns > Select All Columns > Sort A-Z > Name

as shown in the YouTube video Easy Trick for Sorting Columns in Power Query 

Sort.jpg

Anonymous
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@Gangula,

This post should have the solution you are looking for. 

Thank you, that helped.

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