In this challenge we need to use Power Query to split data, pair lists, avoid hard coding header references and more...
00:00 Intro
00:42 The Challenge
03:18 Avoid renaming a column directly via adding a conditional column step
05:48 Avoid renaming a column directly via a fancy formula trick
09:46 Extract data from 4th character using Extract From Range
10:50 Extract data from 4th character using Split by Position
11:36 Splitting Text into Lists and Recombining using Table.FromColumns
Link to Gil's Blog Post https://datachant.com/2017/01/26/power-bi-pitfall-6/
Link to Oz's video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMOnr3DOqyk
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