Selectively Remove Duplicates

[Anonymous]

Hi. The column with yellow highlights is the column that I want to remove duplicates. However, if I directly remove the duplicates, it removes the rows randomly. How can I select which one between the two rows that I want to remove the duplicates?

I want to remove the rows which starts with 'WELL..'. Note that I have all alphabets (PA, PB, PC, PD, PL and etc...)

[v-yangliu-msft]

Hi  @Anonymous ,

Here are the steps you can follow：

1. Create calculated column.

Column =
IF(
    COUNTX(FILTER(ALL('Table'),[column1]=EARLIER([column1])),[column1])>1,
    IF(
    LEFT([column2],4)="WELL",1,0),
    0)

2. Create calculated table.

Table 2 =
SUMMARIZE('Table','Table'[column1],
"column2",CALCULATE(MAX('Table'[column2]),FILTER('Table','Table'[Column]=0)))

3. Result:

You can downloaded PBIX file from here.

Best Regards,

Liu Yang

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[amitchandak · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous , for that you need to have some kind of flag

https://exceleratorbi.com.au/remove-duplicates-keep-last-record-power-query/

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-Query/remove-rows-based-on-condition-on-another-column/m-p/1082589

https://www.excelguru.ca/blog/2019/12/09/remove-dynamic-number-of-top-rows/