Replace all Distinct Values in a column

[eloomis]

I have a column "Employee" that consists of many different employees repeated multiple times with the cooresponding projects they work on.

ProjectID | Employee
123            John

456            John

789            John

321            Chris

654            Chris

987            Chris

I want to replace the names with an anonymous identifier. John will be "Employee 1", Chris will be "Employee 2".

I found this solution, but I want to know how to replace the values without having to enter specific values. There are many employees to account for, and in future, a new employee may get added and I don't want to have to alter the code.

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-Query/Replacing-multiple-value-at-once/m-p/1365221#M43024

Is there a way to replace a list of values with a corresponding list of values without naming all the values in the code?

[HotChilli · Accepted solution]

You could : use a duplicate of the table, remove all columns except Name, Remove Duplicates,

Add an Index column (from 1). Add a custom column "Employee" & Index number

You can then Merge that Query with the original on the name column to bring the EmployeeX text back

[eloomis]

This worked, thank you!