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Warning: Two types of merges

Warning: Two types of merges

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Warning: Two types of merges

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- [Instructor] Here's a members list and somehow, the names of the cities have flown apart on us like Salt Lake City, The Hague. They need to be brought together. And then we also want to put the age, favorite color, and active or not all together. We're going to do this in Power Query and I'm going to show you some gotchas that you got to look out for. Okay, here we go. Data, from table slash range. Okay. So the first thing we want to do is put the city names together. I'm going to highlight city, hold on the control key, then column one, then column two. Add column, merge columns. Separator, I want a space and call this cities. Okay. There is my cities column. Now here's another way of merging columns that's very different from what we just did. I'm going to highlight age, hold on the control key, favorite color, active. Right click, merge columns. Let's put a custom, we're going to put comma, space,…

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