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Anonymous
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create index from existing data with duplicates

Hi folks, Can anyone help me with this one? I have a column of data which includes duplicates which I want to add a sequence number to so they become unique. e.g. F01 F01 F02 F03 would become F01-1 F01-2 F02-1 F03-1 I can think of a long-winded way to do it but I suspect there is an easy way.

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amitchandak
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@Anonymous , first of add index in power query

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45715963/creating-an-index-column-for-power-bi

 

then create a new column in dax like this

 

New column = [Column1] & " - " & countx(filter(Table, [Column1] = earlier([Column1]) && [index] <= earlier([index])),[Column1])

 

assume Column1 is the column having F01 F01 F02 F03

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amitchandak
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@Anonymous , first of add index in power query

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45715963/creating-an-index-column-for-power-bi

 

then create a new column in dax like this

 

New column = [Column1] & " - " & countx(filter(Table, [Column1] = earlier([Column1]) && [index] <= earlier([index])),[Column1])

 

assume Column1 is the column having F01 F01 F02 F03

Anonymous
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Is there a way to do this in M Code in Excel?

Anonymous
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I did manage to do this by splitting into columns using a delimiter and then unpivot command.

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